Case series analysis for censored, perturbed, or curtailed post-event exposures

Biostatistics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-16

  Farrington, C Paddy ^a   Whitaker, Heather J ^a   Hocine, Mounia N ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Censored data; Counterfactual; Endogeneity; Estimating equation; Horvitz Thompson estimator; Pseudo likelihood; Self controlled case series

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIFE TABLE; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIFE TABLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57749089967     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxn013     Document Type: Article

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