Health › Risk marker versus causal risk factor
Term
Risk marker versus causal risk factor
A predictor can be associated with future outcomes without being the mechanism whose manipulation changes those outcomes.
Context
Evidence & provenance
Related concepts
Further reading
- PubMed search for “Risk marker versus causal risk factor”
- Google Scholar search for “Risk marker versus causal risk factor”
- When comparing findings, inspect population, design, effect size, uncertainty, selection, and whether the inference is within-person, between-person, predictive, or causal.
References
No project-supplied external reference yet. Add a source before treating this entry as source-backed.