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Cohort, case-control, cross-sectional: the observational designs, explained

All disciplines · 17 Jul 2023 · 8 min read

What each design can and cannot establish, the biases each is prone to, and the language that should never appear in their conclusions.

This guide is still being written.

The outline above is what it will cover. In the meantime the summaries themselves are live — every paper carries its key results, how it was done, and what it does not show.

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