Deep determinism and the assessment of mechanistic interaction

Biostatistics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 502-513

  Berzuini, Carlo ^a   Dawid, A Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological mechanism; Causal inference; Compositional epistasis; Direct effects; Directed acyclic graphs; Excess risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MECHANISM; BIOSTATISTICS; CAUSAL INFERENCE; COMPOSITIONAL EPISTASIS; DIRECT EFFECTS; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXCESS RISK; GENETICS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL MECHANISM; CAUSAL INFERENCE; COMPOSITIONAL EPISTASIS; DIRECT EFFECTS; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; EXCESS RISK;

ADULT; BIOSTATISTICS; CAUSALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84879091763     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxs049     Document Type: Article

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