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A comment on Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Autism in Offspring.

Re:Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Au... by gcthomas on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @08:43AM (#17809026)
Interesting, but from the abstract it looks too underpowered to allow firm conclusions.

Of the two stated primary measures, one was not associated with autism and the other was only very marginally significant (at p=0.05), so it is rather vulnerable to a reversal if the research is replicated.

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Re:Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Au... by psychometry on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @12:11PM (#17810883)
I also wonder why they did simple case-control matching rather than propensity scores. The number of unobserved confounders you could imagine is high in an analysis like this.
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