Causal inference concepts applied to three observational studies in the context of vaccine development: from theory to practice

BACKGROUND: Randomized controlled trials are considered the gold standard to evaluate causal associations, whereas assessing causality in observational studies is challenging. METHODS: We applied Hill’s Criteria, counterfactual reasoning, and causal diagrams to evaluate a potentially causal relation...

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Autores principales: Gvozdenović, Emilia, Malvisi, Lucio, Cinconze, Elisa, Vansteelandt, Stijn, Nakanwagi, Phoebe, Aris, Emmanuel, Rosillon, Dominique
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7882866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33588764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01220-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7882866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33588764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01220-1

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