Causal inference from observational data

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 409-415

  Listl, Stefan ^a,b   Jürges, Hendrik ^c   Watt, Richard G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

causality; economics; epidemiology; health policy; observational study; public health

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL MEDICINE; DATA ANALYSIS; DENTAL RESEARCH; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; CAUSALITY; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CAUSALITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84964555732     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdoe.12231     Document Type: Note

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