A targeted maximum likelihood estimator of a causal effect on a bounded continuous outcome

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; targeted maximum likelihood estimation; TMLE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PARAMETER; PARAMETRIC TEST; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; VARIANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CAUSALITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955263738     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1260     Document Type: Article

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