Does water kill? A call for less casual causal inferences

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 674-680

  Hernán, Miguel A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Consistency; Counterfactuals; Potential outcomes; Well defined interventions

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL INFERENCE; CAUSALITY; CONSISTENCY; HUMAN; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; TAXONOMY; UNCERTAINTY; WATER MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY;

WATER;

CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RESEARCH DESIGN; WATER;

EID: 84994130167     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2016.08.016     Document Type: Note

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