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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ascertaining cause and effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the process of determining the relationship between events or phenomena.
Example: "In scientific research, ascertaining cause and effect is crucial for validating hypotheses."
Alternatives: "determining causality" or "establishing cause and effect".
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Unlike medical experts, these scientists specialize in the study of networks themselves — anything ranging from neighborhoods linked via the power grid to teenagers linked on Facebook — and they are familiar with the difficulty of ascertaining cause and effect in such complex constructs.
Ascertaining cause and effect is however more difficult.
However, ascertaining cause and effect is more difficult for many reasons that include occurrence by chance of two common symptoms, the changing definition of GORD, equipment limitations and the lack of randomised controlled trials.
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As the current study is cross-sectional, it is not possible to ascertain cause and effect.
Thus, further longitudinal studies are needed to ascertain cause and effect and to correlate flicker-induced vasodilation with retinal neuronal functions using tests such as electroretinography.
This method of univariate analysis cannot be used to ascertain cause and effect, as clinical signs of decreased muscle oxygenation likely leads clinicians to start pressors.
Others see cause and effect here.
Longitudinal studies are recommended to ascertain the cause-and-effect relationships between job and organisational factors on the one hand and the self-perceived ability to continue working on the other hand.
It is difficult to ascertain the cause and effect relationship, as only a single episode was observed.
Second, it should be remembered that this is an observational study and that only the associations between target and outcome can be ascertained, not cause and effect.
Thus, cause-and-effect relationships cannot be ascertained.
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