Commentary: Weighing up the dead and missing: Reflections on inverse-probability weighting and principal stratification to address truncation by death

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 129-131

  Chaix, Basile ^a,b   Evans, David ^a,b,c   Merlo, Juan ^d   Suzuki, Etsuji ^e  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c EHESP SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (France)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DEFECT; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SMOKING;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; SMOKING;

EID: 83655198181     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182319159     Document Type: Note

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