A targeted maximum likelihood estimator for two-stage designs

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rose, Sherri ^a   Van Der Laan, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

double robust estimation; nested case control studies; targeted maximum likelihood estimators; two stage designs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DESIGN; RANDOM SAMPLE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STUDY DESIGN; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 79953724879     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1217     Document Type: Article

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