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Reply to Joly: Inferring causation from comprehensive analysis of observation

Alex Song, Thomas Severini, and Ravi Allada
PNAS April 18, 2017 114 (16) E3169; first published April 11, 2017; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1702816114
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vol. 114 no. 16 E3169
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1702816114
PubMed: 
28400522

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue April 18, 2017.
  • Published first April 11, 2017.

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  1. Alex Songa,
  2. Thomas Severinib, and
  3. Ravi Alladaa,1
  1. aDepartment of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208;
  2. bDepartment of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: r-allada{at}northwestern.edu.
  • Author contributions: A.S., T.S., and R.A. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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