Investigating gateway effects using the PATH study

F1000Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Lee, Peter ^a   Fry, John ^b  

^a PN Lee Statistics and Computing Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b ROELEE Statistics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cigarettes; Confounding; E cigarettes; Gateway effects; Modelling; Propensity score

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GATEWAY EFFECT; HUMAN; MALE; NEVER SMOKER; PREDICTION; PROPENSITY SCORE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; SMOKING INITIATION; TOBACCO; VAPING;

EID: 85090359837     PISSN: 20461402     EISSN: 1759796X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.18354.1     Document Type: Article

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