Smith2011 - Epidemiology, epigenetics and the Gloomy Prospect, embracing randomness in population health research and practice

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• Date read: 2022-12-08
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• Bibtex: @smith2011
• Bibliography: Smith, G. D. (2011). Epidemiology, epigenetics and the ‘Gloomy Prospect’: Embracing randomness in population health research and practice. International Journal of Epidemiology, 40(3), 537–562. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyr117

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• Chance events on the level of the individual are often averaged out at the group level.

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Further, the basic notion that what is near-random at one level may be almost entirely predictable at a higher level is an emergent property of many systems, from particle physics to the social sciences. These considerations suggest that epidemiological approaches will remain fruitful as we enter the decade of the epigenome.