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a statistical study exploring hypotheses by comparing groups, rather than individuals, e.g., comparing rates of breast cancer and levels of fat intake by country.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
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| ecological fallacy |
The mistake of assuming that where relationships are found among aggregate data, these relationships will also be found among individuals or households.
Ãâó: hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/gis/sect101.asp
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(J Swinton) http://www.swintons.net/jonathan/Academic/glossary.html
Ãâó: www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/GlossClinEpiEBM.h...
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| ecological fallacy |
Most often referred to as a logical flaw which results from making a causal inference about an individual phenomenon or process on the basis of observations on groups.
Ãâó: www.sph.umich.edu/geomed/htmls/glossary/gloss.html
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