Cross-Sectional Analyses Can Evaluate the Plausibility of, but Not Validate, Causal Accounts

Affiliations

¹ Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
² Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Comment

Clayton R Critcher et al. Am J Prev Med. 2022 Feb.

. 2022 Feb;62(2):e141-e143.

doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2021.09.009.

¹ Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
² Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts.

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