Causal reasoning from longitudinal data

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 171-187

  Arjas, Elja ^a   Parner, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Conditional independence; Confounding; Marked point processes; Predictive distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942594272     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2004.02-134.x     Document Type: Review

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