Accommodating stochastic departures from percentile invariance in causal models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 837-849

  Dobbin, Kevin K ^a   Louis, Thomas A ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Clinical trials; Permutation models; Treatment adherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242635654     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00418     Document Type: Article

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