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Tying clinical research to patient care by use of an observational database
Author(s) -
Hlatky Mark A.,
Lee Kerry L.,
Harrell Frank E.,
Califf Robert M.,
Pryor David B.,
Mark Daniel B.,
Rosati Robert A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.4780030415
Subject(s) - observational study , tying , causal inference , inference , computer science , proposition , database , medicine , econometrics , artificial intelligence , epistemology , mathematics , philosophy , operating system , pathology
The proposition that some inherent logical incompetence attaches to an inference based on observational, as distinguished from experimental, evidence seems to have little to commend it beyond the great positiveness with which it is sometimes asserted.