Three Criteria for Ecological Fallacy

Three Criteria for Ecological Fallacy

A 332 volume 119 | number 8 | August 2011 • Environmental Health Perspectives mental design may under lie observed differ­ ences in sensitivity to detect neuro toxicity, possibly because of differences in bio kinetics and exposure during sensitive windows of development. Fortunately, much effort is tak­ ing place in the scientific community to opti­ mize experi mental designs at different level...

Ecological Inference and the Ecological Fallacy

In 19th century Europe, suicide rates were higher in countries that were more heavily Protestant, the inference being that suicide was promoted by the social conditions of Protestantism (Durkheim 1897; also see Neeleman and Lewis 1999). According to Carroll (1975), death rates from breast cancer are higher in countries where fat is a larger component of the diet, the idea being that fat intake ...

The ecological fallacy strikes back.

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Health-Exposure Modelling and the Ecological Fallacy

Health-exposure modeling and the ecological fallacy.

Recently, there has been an increased interest in modeling the association between aggregate disease counts and environmental exposures measured, for example via air pollution monitors, at point locations. This paper has two aims: first, we develop a model for such data in order to avoid ecological bias; second, we illustrate that modeling the exposure surface and estimating exposures may lead ...