Can we believe the DAGs? A comment on the relationship between causal DAGs and mechanisms

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2294-2314

  Aalen, O O ^a   Roysland K ^a   Gran, J M ^a   Kouyos, R ^b   Lange, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

causal inference; directed acyclic graphs; mechanisms; modeling

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MODEL; NONHUMAN; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSALITY; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

BAYES THEOREM; CAUSALITY; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA, VIRAL; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84989858244     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280213520436     Document Type: Article

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