Effect partitioning under interference in two-stage randomized vaccine trials

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 861-869

  VanderWeele, Tyler J ^a   Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Interference; Spillover effects; SUTVA; Vaccine trials

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955152293     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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