Using Epidemiological and Longitudinal Approaches to Study Causal Hypotheses

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Fifth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 58-70

  Costello, E Jane ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Natural experiments in epidemiology; Quasi experimental design conclusions; Research designs for studying causal relationships in epidemiological research; Using epidemiological studies to answer causal questions; Using longitudinal data to test causal hypotheses; Using natural experiments to examine genetic environmental causes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957198284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300895.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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