A sequential Cox approach for estimating the causal effect of treatment in the presence of time-dependent confounding applied to data from the Swiss HIV Cohort Study

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 2757-2768

  Gran, Jon Michael ^a   Røysland, Kjetil ^a   Wolbers, Marcel ^b,c   Didelez, Vanessa ^d   Sterne, Jonathan A C ^d   Ledergerber, Bruno ^e   Furrer, Hansjakob ^f   Von Wyl, Viktor ^e   Aalen, Odd O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Causal inference; HIV AIDS; Observational studies; Survival analysis; Time dependent confounding

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PROBABILITY; TIME;

EID: 77958591616     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4048     Document Type: Article

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