The epidemiologic investigations into Gulf War Syndrome, which attempt to identify risk factors and the causative agent(s) and to quantify the association between exposure and outcomes are examples of
1. Analytic epidemiology.
2. Aggregate analysis epidemiology.
3. Classical epidemiology.
4. Descriptive epidemiology.
5. Experimental epidemiology.
ANS: 1
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