Millsian causation

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 533-545

  Aickin, Mikel ^a  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Conditional independence; Directed acyclic graphs; Hypertension; Interaction; Markov property; Modulator

Indexed keywords

EID: 24044433537     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-005-8110-7     Document Type: Article

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