An application of principal stratification to control for institutionalization at follow-up in studies of substance abuse treatment programs

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1034-1055

  Griffin, Beth Ann ^a   Mccaffrey, Daniel F ^a   Morral, Andrew R ^a  

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Author keywords

Causal inference; Institutionalization; Post treatment confounder; Principal stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449333261     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOAS179     Document Type: Article

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