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ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2014

Another casualty of sibling fixed-effects analysis of education and health: an informative null, or null information?

Stephen E Gilman, Eric B Loucks

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Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Stephen E GilmanDepartment of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, United States; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States. Electronic address: sgilman@hsph.harvard.edu.
Eric B LoucksDepartment of Epidemiology, Brown University, United States.

Funding

Pathways Linking Education/Health in Middle AdulthoodR01AG023397 · NIA · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI BUKA, STEPHEN L · 2003 to 2006
$2.0M
The New England Family Study: Fifty Year Post-Perinatal Follow-Up for Life CourseRC2AG036666 · NIA · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI BUKA, STEPHEN L, EATON, CHARLES B · 2009 to 2010
$1.7M
NIA NIH HHS 1R01AG023397NIA NIH HHS 1RC2AG036666NIA NIH HHS R01 AG023397NIA NIH HHS RC2 AG036666
6 · The paper itself

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EnvironmentGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseCardiovascular DiseasesFemaleHumansMaleCardiovascular diseaseCausal inferenceDisparitiesEducational attainmentSiblings

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PMID25138687
PMCPMC4633279

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