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. 2001 May;12(3):313-20.
doi: 10.1097/00001648-200105000-00011.

Data, design, and background knowledge in etiologic inference

J M Robins  1
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Data, design, and background knowledge in etiologic inference

J M Robins. Epidemiology. 2001 May.

Abstract

I use two examples to demonstrate that an appropriate etiologic analysis of an epidemiologic study depends as much on study design and background subject-matter knowledge as on the data. The demonstration is facilitated by the use of causal graphs.

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