F1. CRITERIA FOR CAUSAL INFERENCE.

Question 1

CAUSAL INFERENCE is based on?

Answer 1

BRADFORD HILL’S CRITERIA.

Sino yung BARFOED na naisip ko? TEST yun sa CARBOHYDRATES ‘di ba? T^T

Question 2

the HIGHER THE RISK RATIO
the MOST LIKELY it is CAUSAL

Answer 2

Strength of association.

Question 3

TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP.
EXPOSURE precedes DISEASE.

Answer 3

Temporality.

Question 4

CONSISTENT FINDINGS across diff. designs, diff. populations, and diff. investigators.

Answer 4

Consistency.

Question 5

RESULTS of risk factors, exposure, or disease DOESN’T CONTRADICTS the:
1. natural history of disease.
2. biology of disease.
3. knowledge of science that we already know.

Answer 5

Theoretical plausibility.

Question 6

Exposure only leads to a single effect.

Answer 6

Specificity in the causes.

Question 7

INCREASE dose affects further the outcome.

sinundan ko lang yung sinabi ni Ma’am T^T.

Answer 7

Dose-response relationship.

Question 8

Other Criterias for Causal Inference.

bali there are 9 criterias overall mga, mhie!

Answer 8

Coherence.
Experimental Evidence.
Analogy.