Structural nested cumulative failure time models to estimate the effects of interventions

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 107, Issue 499, 2012, Pages 886-900

  Picciotto, Sally ^a,b   Hernán, Miguel A ^a   Page, John H ^a,c   Young, Jessica G ^a   Robins, James M ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Coronary heart disease; Epidemiology; G estimation; Inverse probability weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870692525     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2012.682532     Document Type: Article

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