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International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(5):1192-1193; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp290
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2009; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Smoking and lung cancer: reflections on a pioneering paper

David R Cox

Nuffield College, Oxford OX1 1NF, UK. E-mail: david.cox@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Accepted 18 May 2009

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This fine paper1 is surely of direct value to all interested in the history of a major issue, possibly the major issue, in non-infectious disease epidemiology. It also sends a strong message to epidemiologists, statisticians and those from the machine learning world who are concerned with potential causal interpretation of their data. It may indeed be helpful to introduce statistical models to represent causal processes, even to call them causal models and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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