Ipw: An R package for inverse probability weighting

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2-23

  van der Wal, Willem M ^a   Geskus, Ronald B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Inverse probability weighting; Marginal structural models; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053002372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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