Causal Inference in a Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial with Binary Outcome and Ordered Compliance

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 435, 1996, Pages 928-934

  Goetghebeur, Els ^a   Molenberghs, Geert ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Coarsening; Counterfactual framework; Efficacy; Intention to treat; Interval censoring; Ordinal data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030335969     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476962     Document Type: Article

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