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COMMENTARY: Apportioning causes, targeting populations and predicting risks: Population attributable fractions

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  1. Biostatistics Branch, NIH, D.H.H.S, USA

    Nilanjan Chatterjee

  2. Office of Director, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, NIH, D.H.H.S, USA

    Patricia Hartge

  3. Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, D.H.H.S, USA

    Patricia Hartge

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Chatterjee, N., Hartge, P. COMMENTARY: Apportioning causes, targeting populations and predicting risks: Population attributable fractions. Eur J Epidemiol 18, 933–935 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025863607725

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