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Title
Dependent stressful life events and prior depressive episodes in the prediction of major depression: the problem of causal inference in psychiatric epidemiology.
Authors
Kendler, Kenneth S; Gardner, Charles O
Abstract
Most environmental risk factors for psychiatric disorders cannot be studied experimentally, making causal attributions difficult. Can we address this question by using together 2 major methods for causal inference: natural experiments and specialized statistical methods?
Publication
Archives of general psychiatry, 2010, Vol 67, Issue 11, p1120