Response: Formalism or pluralism? A reply to commentaries on 'causality and causal inference in epidemiology'

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1841-1851

  Broadbent, Alex ^a   Vandenbroucke, Jan P ^b,c   Pearce, Neil ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIORITIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; CAUSALITY; EPISTEMOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDAGOGICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCIENCE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

CAUSALITY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMANS;

EID: 85017122367     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw298     Document Type: Article

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