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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Main Authors: Yamada Kentaro, Kuroki Manabu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2017-09-01
Series:Journal of Causal Inference
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2016-0020