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On the relationship of machine learning with causal inference

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This study is supported by the grant from Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan (No. 108-2636-B-009-001).

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  1. Institute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Sheng-Hsuan Lin

  2. Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Doctor Molewaterplein 40, 3015 GD, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Mohammad Arfan Ikram

  3. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA

    Mohammad Arfan Ikram

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Lin, SH., Ikram, M.A. On the relationship of machine learning with causal inference. Eur J Epidemiol 35, 183–185 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-019-00564-9

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