Modeling reciprocal effects in medical research: Critical discussion on the current practices and potential alternative models

• Satoshi Usami ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: usami@ct.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Education, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5670-2242

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• Naoya Todo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Kou Murayama

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Reading, Reading Berkshire, United Kingdom, Research Institute, Kochi University of Technology, Kami, Kochi, Japan

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