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Aug 2026
Toward a Total Causal Error Framework: Extending Cornfield’s Insights Across Causal Identification, Representation, and Measurement
Abstract:Cornfield et al.'s (1959) analysis of smoking and lung cancer showed how explicit assumptions about unobserved confounding and selection mechanisms shape the boundary between statistical association and causal conclusions. Today, causal inference spans diverse fields including economics, statistics, psychology...
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