Estimating uncertainty in observational studies of associations between continuous variables: example of methylmercury and neuropsychological testing in children

Table 3 Illustrative examples of FIS and SCDS BNT results corrected for unaccounted confounding

Scenario	Confounder SD	Confounder Correlation with		Regression slope
		Exposure	Outcome	Observed	Corrected
FIS
Scenario 1	15.0	-0.10	0.20	-0.019	-0.015
Scenario 2	15.0	0.10	0.20	-0.019	-0.023
Scenario 4	15.0	-0.50	0.20	-0.019	0.002
Scenario 3	15.0	0.50	0.20	-0.019	-0.053
Scenario 5	15.0	-0.10	0.80	-0.019	-0.002
Scenario 6	15.0	0.10	0.80	-0.019	-0.036
Scenario 7	15.0	-0.50	0.80	-0.019	0.085
Scenario 8	15.0	0.50	0.80	-0.019	-0.136
SCDS
Scenario 1	15.0	-0.10	0.20	-0.012	0.01
Scenario 2	15.0	0.10	0.20	-0.012	-0.03
Scenario 3	15.0	-0.50	0.20	-0.012	0.13
Scenario 4	15.0	0.50	0.20	-0.012	-0.16
Scenario 5	15.0	-0.10	0.80	-0.012	0.07
Scenario 6	15.0	0.10	0.80	-0.012	-0.10
Scenario 7	15.0	-0.50	0.80	-0.012	0.55
Scenario 8	15.0	0.50	0.80	-0.012	-0.58