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The individualistic fallacy, ecological studies and instrumental variables: a causal interpretation
The validity of ecological studies in epidemiology for inferring causal relationships has been widely challenged as observed associations could be biased by the Ecological Fallacy. We reconsider the important design components of ecological studies, and discuss the conditions that may lead to spurio...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350299/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25745504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-11-18 |