Fitting marginal structural models: estimating covariate-treatment associations in the reweighted data set can guide model fitting

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 875-881

  Pullenayegum, Eleanor M ^a,b   Lam, Catherine ^c   Manlhiot, Cedric ^c   Feldman, Brian M ^c,d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR EVALUATION OF MEDICINES   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Confounding; Goodness of fit; juvenile dermatomyositis; Marginal structural models; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARGINAL STRUCTURAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHILD; DERMATOMYOSITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48349086125     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.10.024     Document Type: Article

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