Replication and Evidence Factors in Observational Studies

by Paul Rosenbaum and Paul R. Rosenbaum

Book Overview

Outside of randomized experiments, association does not imply causation, and yet there is nothing defective about our knowledge that smoking causes lung cancer, a conclusion reached in the absence of randomized experimentation with humans. How is that possible? If observed associations do not identify causal effects in observational studies, how can a sequence of such associations become decisive?

Two or more associations may each...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367751704
• ISBN13: 9780367751708
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"