The effect of winning an oscar award on survival: Correcting for healthy performer survivor bias with a rank preserving structural accelerated failure time model

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 2 A, 2011, Pages 746-772

  Han, Xu ^a   Small, Dylan S ^a   Foster, Dean P ^a   Patel, Vishal ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; G estimation; Oscar award; Rank preserving structural accelerated failure time model; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866884607     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOAS424     Document Type: Article

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