An application of collaborative targeted maximum likelihood estimation in causal inference and genomics

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Gruber, Susan ^a   Van Der Laan, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal effect; Collaborative double robust; Cross validation; Double robust; Efficient influence curve; Estimator selection; Locally efficient; Maximum likelihood estimation; Model selection; Penalization; Penalized likelihood; Super efficiency; Super learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; DATA BASE; GENOMICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MUTATION; PARAMETER; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STANDARD; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; PROPENSITY SCORE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

LOPINAVIR;

CAUSALITY; DRUG RESISTANCE, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOMICS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOPINAVIR; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; PROPENSITY SCORE;

EID: 77953143090     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1182     Document Type: Article

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