A note on the variance of doubly-robust G-estimators

Biometrika

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 998-1004

  Moodie, E E M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic treatment regime; G estimation; Sequential estimation; Structural nested mean model

Indexed keywords

EID: 71249117969     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asp043     Document Type: Article

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