Rejoinder: To weight or not to weight?: On the relation between inverse-probability weighting and principal stratification for truncation by death

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 132-137

  Tchetgen, Eric J Tchetgen ^a,b   Glymour, M Maria ^a   Shpitser, Ilya ^a   Weuve, Jennifer ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Biostatistics ^*  (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 83655183656     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31823b5081     Document Type: Article

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