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Relative risks, the probability of necessity, and attributable fractions

2024-07-04 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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Epidemiologists are careful to describe their findings as "associations", and to avoid any causal language or claims. Arguably, this attempt to avoid reference to causal processes has become counterproductive. Explicitly stated or not, assumptions about causal processes are inherent in the formulation and interpretation of any statistical study. This article offers a bridge between established, extensively developed proportional hazard methods that are used to study longitudinal observational co...

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