Estimation of the Causal Effect of a Time-Varying Exposure on the Marginal Mean of a Repeated Binary Outcome

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 447, 1999, Pages 687-700

  Robins, James M ^a   Greenland, Sander ^b   Hu, Fu Chang ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Causal effects; G computation algorithm; Generalized estimating equation; Longitudinal data; Marginal structural models; Markov chain; Structural nested models; Time dependent covariates

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542637615     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10474168     Document Type: Article

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