Commentary: Population versus individual level causal effects

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 432-434

  Elwert, Felix ^a   Winship, Christopher ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INDIVIDUAL BASED POPULATION MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OBSERVATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NOTE; SMOKING;

CAUSALITY; HUMANS; SMOKING;

EID: 0036113314     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intjepid/31.2.432     Document Type: Article

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