Variance inflation is not the same as variance overestimation

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Electronic address: tibor.schuster@mcgill.ca.
• ² Department of Biometrie, Aixial, Paris, France.
• ³ Department of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Lady Davis Research Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.