Journal article
The limits of precision in risk-factor epidemiology, and some practical lessons in communicating it
Dialogues in health, Forthcoming
Aug 2026
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Abstract
Authors and consumers of epidemiology research need to understand just how imprecise the results of epidemiology studies are. As a start on this, authors need to stop implicitly claiming orders-of-magnitude more precision than is warranted by their methods and data. The present paper briefly summarizes why everyone should understand this, and provides a bit of advice to authors about reducing incorrect and potentially harmful claims of precision.
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- Title
- The limits of precision in risk-factor epidemiology, and some practical lessons in communicating it
- Creators
- Carl V. Phillips (Corresponding Author) - Southern New Hampshire Medical CenterIgor Burstyn - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Dialogues in health, Forthcoming
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Environmental and Occupational Health
- Other Identifier
- 991022201581804721