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Ecological Study

An ecological study is an observational epidemiological design in which the unit of analysis is a group or population — a country, region, city, or time period — rather than an individual. Exposures and outcomes are measured as aggregates (rates, proportions, or means) and then correlated across groups to generate or evaluate hypotheses about population-level associations between risk factors and disease.

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Ecological Epidemiological Study
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / epidemiology
  • Morgenstern, H. (1995). Ecologic studies in epidemiology: concepts, principles, and methods. Annual Review of Public Health, 16(1), 61–81. · DOI 10.1146/annurev.pu.16.050195.000425
  • Ecological study. Wikipedia. · URL
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