For and Against Methodologies: Some Perspectives on Recent Causal and Statistical Inference Debates

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  2017

• Venue

  European Journal of Epidemiology

• Publication date

  2017-02-20

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  Medicine, Philosophy

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  DOI 10.1007/s10654-017-0230-6PMID 28220361
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