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Partitioning the population attributable fraction for a sequential chain of effects

Craig A Mason1, Shihfen Tu

  • 1College of Education and Human Development, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA. craig.mason@umit.maine.edu

Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations : EP+I
|October 4, 2008
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