Counterfactual-Based Prevented and Preventable Proportions
Prevented and preventable fractions have been widely used in medical science to evaluate the proportion of new diseases that can be averted by a protective exposure. However, most existing formulas used in practical situations cannot be interpreted as proportions without any further assumptions beca...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017-09-01
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Series: | Journal of Causal Inference |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2016-0020 |