Data, design, and background knowledge in etiologic inference.
Robins JM.
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
I use two examples to demonstrate that an appropriate etiologic analysis of an epidemiologic study depends as much on study design and background subject-matter knowledge as on the data. The demonstration is facilitated by the use of causal graphs.
PMID: 11338312 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]