Double robust estimation in longitudinal marginal structural models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1061-1089

  Yu, Zhuo ^a   van der Laan, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterfactual; Double robust estimation; Estimating functions; Inverse probability of treatment censoring weighted estimators; Longitudinal data; Marginal structural model; Sequential randomization

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044462404     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2004.08.011     Document Type: Article

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