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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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Autores principales: Parascandola, Mark, Weed, Douglas L, Dasgupta, Abhijit
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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