On the use of propensity scores in principal causal effect estimation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2857-2875

  Jo, Booil ^a   Stuart, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Intermediate outcomes; Principal ignorability; Principal scores; Principal stratification; Propensity scores; Randomized experiments

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; HUMAN; JOB FINDING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTIVATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROPENSITY IGNORABILITY; PROPENSITY SCORE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOSTATISTICS; CAUSALITY; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70449397203     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3669     Document Type: Article

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