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Comment on “Blessings of Multiple Causes”

Elizabeth L. Ogburna Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Correspondence[email protected]
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Ilya Shpitserb Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD;
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Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgenc Department of Statistics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Pages 1611-1615 | Received 11 Oct 2019, Accepted 29 Oct 2019, Published online: 03 Jan 2020

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