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Two Surgeon General's reports on smoking and cancer: a historical investigation of the practice of causal inference
BACKGROUND: The epidemiologic literature is replete with conceptual discussions about causal inference, but little is known about how the causal criteria are applied in public health practice. The criteria for causal inference in use today by epidemiologists have been shaped substantially by their u...
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BioMed Central
2006
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1343554/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16403213 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-3-1 |