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Causal thinking and causal language in epidemiology: it's in the details
Although epidemiology is necessarily involved with elucidating causal processes, we argue that there is little practical need, having described an epidemiological result, to then explicitly label it as causal (or not). Doing so is a convention which obscures the valuable core work of epidemiology as...
Autores principales: | Lipton, Robert, Ødegaard, Terje |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2005
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1198241/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16053522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-5573-2-8 |
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