Causality in Medicine and Its Relationship with the Role of Statistics (UPDATED 2020)
Prime Archives in Biomedical Sciences Book Chapter Causality in Medicine and Its Relationship with the Role of Statistics (UPDATED 2020) Antonio Monleon-Getino1,3* and Jaume Canela-Soler2 1Section of Statistics, Departament of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Faculty of Biology, Univeristy of Barcelona, Spain 2Department of Clinical Foundations, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Spain 3Group of Researh in Bioestatistics and Bioinformatics (GRBIO), Spain *Corresponding Author: Antonio Monleon-Getino, Section of Statistics, Departament of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Faculty of Biology, Univeristy of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Published April 13, 2020 This Book Chapter is a republication of an article published by Antonio Monleon-Getino and Jaume Canela-Soler at Biomedical Statistics and Informatics in June 2017. (Antonio Monleon- Getino, Jaume Canela-Soler. Causality in Medicine and Its Relationship with the Role of Statistics. Biomedical Statistics and Informatics. Vol. 2, No. 2, 2017, pp. 61-68. doi: 10.11648/j.bsi.20170202.14) How to cite this book chapter: Antonio Monleon-Getino, Jaume Canela-Soler. Causality in Medicine and Its Relationship with the Role of Statistics (UPDATED 2020). In: Prime Archives in Biomedical Sciences. Hyderabad, India: Vide Leaf. 2020. © The Author(s) 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which 1 www.videleaf.com Prime Archives in Biomedical Sciences permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The general goal of this work is the clarification of the use of concepts of causality in medicine and its relationship with the role of statistics.
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