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defen on Sept 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Simpson's Paradox

You're describing a randomized controlled trial and not an epidemiological study.

dbecker on Sept 19, 2013 [–]

You are mistakenly confounding that epidemiological and observational.

Epidemiology studies can be randomized or observational.

defen on Sept 19, 2013 | [–]

Interesting...what would be an example of a randomized epidemiological study?

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