Estimating causal effects in trials involving multitreatment arms subject to non-compliance: A Bayesian framework

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 513-531

  Long, Qi ^a   Little, Roderick J A ^b   Lin, Xihong ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Complier average causal effect; Multiarm trials; Non compliance; Principal compliance; Principal stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955993051     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2009.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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