Exposure-wide epidemiology: Revisiting Bradford Hill

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1749-1762

  Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Causation; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ERROR; EXPOSURE; CAUSALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CAUSALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84949641198     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6825     Document Type: Article

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