Causal attribution fractions, and the attribution of smoking and BMI to the landscape of disease incidence in UK Biobank
Unlike conventional epidemiological studies that use observational data to estimate “associations” between risk factors and disease, the science of causal inference has identified situations where causal estimates can be made from observational data, using results such as the “backdoor criteria”. He...
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Nature Research
2022
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