Helena Chmura Kraemer
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How can we learn about developmental processes from cross-sectional studies, or can we?
Am J Psychiatry. 2000; (2): 163-71
Cross-sectional studies are often used in psychiatric research as a basis of longitudinal inferences about developmental or disease processes. While the limitations of such usage are often acknowledged, these are often understated. The authors describe how such inferences are often, and sometimes seriously, misleading.
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