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. 2013 Aug;42(4):1022-6.

doi: 10.1093/ije/dyt105.

Commentary: Should we always deliberately be non-representative?

Shah Ebrahim¹, George Davey Smith

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¹ Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London,UK and MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

PMID: 24062291
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt105

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Commentary: Should we always deliberately be non-representative?

Shah Ebrahim et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2013 Aug.

. 2013 Aug;42(4):1022-6.

doi: 10.1093/ije/dyt105.

Authors

Shah Ebrahim¹, George Davey Smith

Affiliation

¹ Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London,UK and MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

PMID: 24062291
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt105

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Rebuttal: When it comes to scientific inference, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Rothman KJ, Gallacher JE, Hatch EE. Rothman KJ, et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2013 Aug;42(4):1026-8. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyt124. Int J Epidemiol. 2013. PMID: 24062292 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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Why representativeness should be avoided.
Rothman KJ, Gallacher JE, Hatch EE. Rothman KJ, et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2013 Aug;42(4):1012-4. doi: 10.1093/ije/dys223. Int J Epidemiol. 2013. PMID: 24062287 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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