Direct effect models

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Van Der Laan, Mark J ^a   Petersen, Maya L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Counterfactual; Double robust estimation; G computation; Inverse probability of treatment censoring weighted estimation; Targeted maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSAY; COVARIANCE; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZATION; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICS; BIOSTATISTICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOSTATISTICS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55549097844     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1064     Document Type: Article

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