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ArticleInternational journal of epidemiology2016

Response: Formalism or pluralism? A reply to commentaries on 'Causality and causal inference in epidemiology'.

Alex Broadbent, Jan P Vandenbroucke, Neil Pearce

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Article in International journal of epidemiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Causal Pluralism in Medicine and its Implications for Clinical Practice.Journal for general philosophy of science = Zeitschrift fur allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie · 2024
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  5. Truer Facts Through Stronger Values: Confronting Science's Sociopolitical Realities.New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS · 2022
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  7. Reply to Lurie et al.Global epidemiology · 2021
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  9. Educational note: types of causes.International journal of epidemiology · 2020
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  10. Causal criteria: time has come for a revision.European journal of epidemiology · 2019
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  12. Epidemiology at a time for unity.International journal of epidemiology · 2018
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  15. On wagging tales about causal inference.International journal of epidemiology · 2017
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  16. Causal inference-so much more than statistics.International journal of epidemiology · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alex BroadbentDepartment of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, Jonannesburg, South Africa.
Jan P VandenbrouckeLeiden University Medical Center, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden, The Netherlands and Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Neil PearceDepartment of Medical Statistics and Centre for Global NCDs, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK and Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 097834/Z/11/B
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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CausalityCultural DiversityEpidemiologyHumans

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PMID28130316
PMCPMC5841621

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