Estimating mean response as a function of treatment duration in an observational study, where duration may be informatively censored

Biometrics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 315-323

  Johnson, Brent A ^a   Tsiatis, Anastasios A ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored covariates; Censored treatment; Confounding; Infusion length; Inverse weighting; Observational study; Propensity score; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

PATIENT TREATMENT;

CENSORED COVARIATE; CENSORED TREATMENT; CONFOUNDING; COVARIATES; INFUSION LENGTH; INVERSE WEIGHTING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROPENSITY SCORE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

BIOMETRY;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFUSION; OBSERVATION; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

EID: 2942668688     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2004.00175.x     Document Type: Article

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