Beyond exchangeability: The other conditions for causal inference in medical research
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Comment: Causal Inference in the Medical Area
It is an honor to be a discussant to the Morris Hansen Lecture, and a pleasure to be discussing Don Rubin’s talk. Dr. Rubin has clarified over the years many of the deep issues relating to causal inference. Let me start with a story. About 20 years ago when I was teaching at UCLA, I was eating breakfast one morning at my kitchen table, and my twoand-a-half-year-old daughter was in the next room...
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عنوان ژورنال: Statistical Methods in Medical Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0962-2802,1477-0334
DOI: 10.1177/0962280211398037