title: Commentary: The formal approach to quantitative causal inference in epidemiology: misguided or misrepresented?
authors.affiliation: LSHTM Centre for Statistical Methodology and Medical Statistics Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
authors.forename: Rhian M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Daniel
authors.affiliation: LSHTM Centre for Statistical Methodology and Medical Statistics Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
authors.forename: Bianca L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: De Stavola
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Statistics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Stijn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vansteelandt
mesh_terms: D015984:Causality; D004813:Epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical