Parents in the Wakefield study reported autism in their children some time after receiving the MMR vaccine. This led to the belief that the MMR vaccine was causing Autism. Explain how temporal association provided an alternative explanation (Rival Cause) in understanding the relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism? What important design feature was able to isolated the effects of temporal association in the Autism study?

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