Estimating a marginal causal odds ratio subject to confounding

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 309-321

  Zhang, Zhiwei ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Collapsibility; Confounding; Logistic regression; Odds ratio

Indexed keywords

LOGISTICS;

CAUSAL INFERENCE; COLLAPSIBILITY; CONFOUNDING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; ODDS RATIO;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 57849156494     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920802200076     Document Type: Article

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