Improving causal determination
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I begin this discussion by thanking Larry Hedges, the editor of the journal, for giving me an opportunity to provide a commentary on this stimulating article. I also would like to congratulate the authors of the article for their insightful discussion on causal mediation analysis, which is one of the most important and challenging methodological problems we face in the literature of causal infe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Global Epidemiology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2590-1133
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloepi.2019.100004