Making causal claims about environmentally induced adverse effects

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-52

  Linder, Stephen H ^a   Delclos, George ^a   Sexton, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Causality; Causation; Environmental causes; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950964748     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030903459288     Document Type: Article

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