Criteria for surrogate end points based on causal distributions

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 129-142

  Ju, Chuan ^a   Geng, Zhi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Causal diagram; Causal effect; Surrogate end point

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049163784     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2009.00729.x     Document Type: Article

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