Principal stratification and attribution prohibition: Good ideas taken too far

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Joffe, Marshall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

causal inference; principal stratification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DEATH; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERCEPTION; PRINCIPAL STRATIFICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; THERAPY EFFECT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053556637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15574679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1367     Document Type: Article

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