Detecting Causal Nonlinear Exposure-Response Relations in Epidemiological Data
The possibility of hormesis in individual dose-response relations undermines traditional epidemiological criteria and tests for causal relations between exposure and response variables. Non-monotonic exposure-response relations in a large population may lack aggregate consistency, strength, biologic...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2006-04-01
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| Series: | Dose-Response |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2203/dose-response.05-002.Cox |