Sensitivity analysis for unmeasured confounding in a marginal structural Cox proportional hazards model

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 278-294

  Klungsøyr, Ole ^a,b   Sexton, Joe ^c   Sandanger, Inger ^a   Nygård, Jan F ^a,d  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Selection bias; Sensitivity analysis; Unmeasured confounding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORWAY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NORWAY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING;

EID: 63449107669     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-008-9109-x     Document Type: Article

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