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Erschienen in: European Journal of Epidemiology 11/2022

12.11.2022 | COMMENTARY

Thoughts on Miettinen’s “Causal and preventive interdependence: Elementary Principles.”

verfasst von: Clarice R. Weinberg

Erschienen in: European Journal of Epidemiology | Ausgabe 11/2022

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Though some of his writing tended toward the cryptic, Olli Miettinen was a deep thinker who tried to clarify the fundamentals of epidemiology. In this classic paper [1] he returned to the basic ideas of synergy and antagonism of two exposures, in order to clarify both the “ontology and epistemology” of those phenomena. What should we mean by those words in relation to a binary outcome, and how might we investigate those phenomena in populations? …
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Metadaten
Titel
Thoughts on Miettinen’s “Causal and preventive interdependence: Elementary Principles.”
verfasst von
Clarice R. Weinberg
Publikationsdatum
12.11.2022
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
European Journal of Epidemiology / Ausgabe 11/2022
Print ISSN: 0393-2990
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7284
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-022-00942-w

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