Collaborative targeted maximum likelihood for time to event data

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Stitelman, Ori M ^a   Van Der Laan, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

causal effect; causal inference; censored data; collaborative double robust; Cox proportional hazards; cross validation; double robust; efficient influence curve; estimating function; G computation; influence curve; locally efficient; loss function; maximum likelihood estimation; super efficiency; super learning; survival analysis; targeted maximum likelihood estimation; targeted nuisance parameter estimator selection

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; COLLABORATIVE TARGETED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL RATE; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOSTATISTICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954380272     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1249     Document Type: Review

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