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Comment
. 2017 May;28(3):e31-e32.
doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000643.

Re: Some Thoughts on Consequential Epidemiology and Causal Architecture

Katherine M Keyes  1 , Sandro Galea
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Comment

Re: Some Thoughts on Consequential Epidemiology and Causal Architecture

Katherine M Keyes et al. Epidemiology. 2017 May.
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The authors have no reported conflicts of interest and report no funding that supported this work.

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  • The Author Responds.
    Poole C. Poole C. Epidemiology. 2017 May;28(3):e32-e33. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000644. Epidemiology. 2017. PMID: 28368968 No abstract available.

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