Interactions and complexity: Goals and limitations

Epidemiologic Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 79-81

  VanderWeele, Tyler J ^a   Knol, Mirjam J ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causation; Interaction; Mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947029606     PISSN: 21949263     EISSN: 2161962X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/em-2014-0016     Document Type: Article

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