Data, Design, and Background Knowledge in Etiologic Inference

Overview

Journal Epidemiology

Specialty Public Health

Date 2001 May 8

PMID 11338312

Citations 102

Authors

J M Robins

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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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