Causal Analysis in Biomedicine and Epidemiology
Subtitle: Based on Minimal Sufficient Causation (Biostatistics)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Published: January 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780824707484
Subjects: Applied mathematics; Epidemiology & medical statistics; Statistical methods; Medical / Nursing; Biostatistics; Epidemiology; Research; Medical; Public Health; Medicine; Probability & Statistics - General; Mathematics / Statistics; General; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Biometry
First sentence: The idea of cause-and-effect plays such a constant role in our everyday lives, it is remarkable that after centuries of thought, we still cannot tell whether it is part of the natural order of the universe, or simply a mental construct we use to make sense of what happens to us.