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Double Blind Studies & Confounders

You seem to be mixing a few things here. Unknown confounders are addressed thought randomization, because doing so properly guarantees (in the limit) that any characteristic that may be prognostic for ...
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Double Blind Studies & Confounders

Adding to PBulls excellent answer: You can still add covariates/confounders to the analysis in a double blind RCT. It's true that, with random assignment to treatment/control (or more) the confounders ...
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How to specify a risk model?

A risk model is a model that models risk. The models you show as $\pi = \beta_1 x_1 + \ldots $ are additive risk models. Which is interesting because they perform so badly with even modest numbers of ...
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