Causes, risks, and probabilities: Probabilistic concepts of causation in chronic disease epidemiology

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 232-234

  Parascandola, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Causal inference; Causation; Epidemiology; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MODEL; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK FACTOR;

CAUSALITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 80955164616     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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