Estimating efficacy in a proposed randomized trial with initial and later non-compliance

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 211-221

  Baker, Stuart G ^a,d   Frangakis, Constantine ^b   Lindeman, Karen S ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Potential outcomes; Principal stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947687099     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2007.00574.x     Document Type: Article

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