Causal effects in clinical and epidemiological studies via potential outcomes: Concepts and analytical approaches

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 21, Issue , 2000, Pages 121-145

  Little, Roderick J ^a   Rubin, Donald B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Missing data; Noncompliance; Observational studies; Randomization; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0033942150     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.21.1.121     Document Type: Article

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