An extended general location model for causal inferences from data subject to noncompliance and missing values

Biometrics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 598-607

  Peng, Yahong ^a   Little, Roderick J A ^b   Raghunathan, Trivellore E ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; EM algorithm; General location model; Missing data; Noncompliance

Indexed keywords

INFERENCE ENGINES;

AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECTS; CAUSAL INFERENCES; DATA SUBJECTS; EM ALGORITHMS; GENERAL LOCATION MODEL; LOCATION MODELING; MISSING DATA; MISSING VALUES; NONCOMPLIANCE; STANDARD ANALYSIS;

LOCATION;

ALGORITHM; MODELING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COVARIANCE; HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 4444287351     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2004.00208.x     Document Type: Article

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