A practical illustration of the importance of realistic individualized treatment rules in causal inference

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 574-596

  Bembom, Oliver ^a   Van Der Laan, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic treatment rules; Experimental treatment assignment assumption; Physical activity; Positivity assumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 61749090370     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-EJS105     Document Type: Article

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