Louis A Cox, William J Thompson, Kenneth A Mundt
Interventional probability of causation (IPoC) with epidemiological and partial mechanistic evidence: benzene vs. formaldehyde and acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Critical reviews in toxicology
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