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Driver versus navigator causation in biology: the case of insulin and fasting glucose

BACKGROUND: In biomedicine, inferring causal relation from experimental intervention or perturbation is believed to be a more reliable approach than inferring causation from cross-sectional correlation. However, we point out here that even in interventional inference there are logical traps. In home...

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Autores principales: Diwekar-Joshi, Manawa, Watve, Milind
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7735078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33365205
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10396