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Causes and Logic in Epidemiological Psychiatry

3. Causal Modeling with Contingency Tables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. J. Cooke
D. J. Cooke*
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Psychology Department, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 137 , Issue 6 , December 1980 , pp. 582 - 584
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1980 

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