Bounds on potential risks and causal risk differences under assumptions about confounding parameters

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 28, 2007, Pages 5125-5135

  Chiba, Yasutaka ^a   Sato, Tosiya ^a   Greenland, Sander ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumental variables estimator; Intention to treat; Noncompliance; Per protocol set; Potential outcomes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 36349016111     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2927     Document Type: Article

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