Ecological study
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ecological-study-232-8332884
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Ecological study
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In epidemiology, ecological studies are used to understand the relationship between outcome and exposure at a population level, where 'population' represents a group of individuals with a shared characteristic such as geography, ethnicity, socio-economic status of employment. What differentiates ecological studies from other studies is that the unit analysis being studied is the group, therefore inferences cannot be made about individual study participants. On the other hand, details of outcome
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Type of observational study in epidemiology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_study
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2024-03-22T10:27:15Z
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