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If by asking, What is the 'attributable fraction' ?, we mean:
What is the proportion of cases that are caused by (or due to, or attributable to) the exposure? then the correct use of the attributable fraction is the etiologic fraction. The etiologic fraction, however, is not usually estimable without a biologic mechanism.