A comparison of methods for estimating the causal effect of a treatment in randomized clinical trials subject to noncompliance

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 640-649

  Little, Roderick J ^a   Long, Qi ^b   Lin, Xihong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

As treated analysis; Causal inference; Efficacy; Instrumental variables; Per protocol analysis; Principal stratification; Propensity scores

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE CONTROL; DISEASES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RANDOM PROCESSES;

AS-TREATED ANALYSE; CAUSAL INFERENCES; COVARIATES; EFFICACY; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; PER-PROTOCOL ANALYSE; PRINCIPAL STRATIFICATION; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROTOCOL ANALYZE; RANDOMISATION;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESIGN; ESTIMATION METHOD; INSTRUMENTATION;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EFFECT SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART DISEASE; MENTAL COMPLIANCE; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZATION; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 66949128919     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01066.x     Document Type: Article

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