Causal inference in longitudinal studies with history-restricted marginal structural models

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 119-154

  Neugebauer, Romain ^a   Van Der Laan, Mark J ^a   Joffe, Marshall M ^b   Tager, Ira B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Counterfactual; Double robust; G computation; IPTW; Longitudinal study; Marginal structural model

Indexed keywords

EID: 49149121461     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-EJS050     Document Type: Article

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