Data, design, and background knowledge in etiologic inference

Epidemiology
J M Robins

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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