Model misspecification and robustness in causal inference: Comparing matching with doubly robust estimation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1572-1581

  Waernbaum, Ingeborg ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Causal effects; Inverse probability weighting; Prognostic score; Propensity score

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DOUBLY ROBUST ESTIMATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

CAUSALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROPENSITY SCORE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84862681156     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4496     Document Type: Article

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