The impact of unmeasured baseline effect modification on estimates from an inverse probability of treatment weighted logistic model

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 343-349

  Delaney, Joseph A C ^a   Platt, Robert W ^b   Suissa, Samy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effect measure modification; Epidemiology; Inverse probability weighting; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OUTCOME VARIABLE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 67449126851     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-009-9341-z     Document Type: Article

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