Turtles all the way down: do biological mechanisms for epidemiological observations always matter?

David T.P. Buis; Jos van Roosmalen

doi:10.1007/s10654-021-00807-8

Turtles all the way down: do biological mechanisms for epidemiological observations always matter?

David T.P. Buis^*
, Jos van Roosmalen

^*Corresponding author for this work

Athena Institute

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	909-912
Number of pages	4
Journal	European Journal of Epidemiology
Volume	36
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-021-00807-8
Publication status	Published - Sept 2021

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We thank prof. Y.M. Smulders for critically reading the manuscript and his suggestions.

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Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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We thank prof. Y.M. Smulders for critically reading the manuscript and his suggestions.

Keywords

Biological mechanisms
Causal inference
Causality
Epidemiology
Hill's criteria

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