Do you have any tutorial about negative controls?

[JuanPi (Juan Pinero)]

Thank you.

What if I don’t have negative controls, or I don’t know them? It seems that Atlas doesn’t allow you to perform any analysis if you don’t have controls.

I have another related question.

Is Atlas using negative control outcomes o negative control predictors?

Hello There are two types of negative controls: outcomes and predictors. Atlas population estimation has a section “Negative Control Outcome Cohort Definition”. Atlas help explains negative controls: “Negative control outcomes are outcomes that are not believed to be caused by either the target or the comparator, and where therefore the true hazard ratio equals 1”. But EmpiricalCalibration, the R package used to perform empirical calibration of observational study, estimates “using a set of …