RE: "ESTIMATING THE PROPORTION OF DISEASE DUE TO CLASSES OF SUFFICIENT CAUSES"

Open Access

13 October 2006

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology

Vol. 164 (12) , 1254-1255
https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwk082

Abstract

An approach was recently proposed for grouping similar sufficient causes into classes and estimating the proportion of disease that is due to these classes (1). However, the interpretation of the classes formed was partly misleading. We want to clarify the meaning of the derived classes of sufficient causes and to illustrate the former misinterpretation.

Keywords

SUFFICIENT CAUSES
PROPORTION
GROUPING SIMILAR
DERIVED CLASSES
RECENTLY PROPOSED
CLASSES FORMED
SIMILAR SUFFICIENT
CLASSES OF SUFFICIENT
FORMER MISINTERPRETATION

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