Compartmental model diagrams as causal representations in relation to DAGs

Epidemiologic Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Ackley, Sarah F ^a   Mayeda, Elizabeth Rose ^a   Worden, Lee ^a   Enanoria, Wayne T A ^a   Glymour, M Maria ^a   Porco, Travis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

causal inference; causal models; compartmental model diagrams; DAGs; process models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DEMENTIA; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 85062112541     PISSN: 21949263     EISSN: 2161962X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/em-2016-0007     Document Type: Article

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