Estimating the causal effect of zidovudine on CD4 count with a marginal structural model for repeated measures

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1689-1709

  Hernán, Miguel A ^a   Brumback, Babette A ^b   Robins, James M ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Confounding causality; HIV disease; Repeated measures; Time varying exposure

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; ZIDOVUDINE;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CAUSALITY; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ZIDOVUDINE;

EID: 0037198994     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1144     Document Type: Article

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