Triangulation in aetiological epidemiology
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Triangulation in aetiological epidemiology
Triangulation is the practice of obtaining more reliable answers to research questions through integrating results from several different approaches, where each approach has different key sources of potential bias that are unrelated to each other. With respect to causal questions in aetiological epidemiology, if the results of different approaches all point to the same conclusion, this strength...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw314