Contrasting treatment-specific survival using double-robust estimators

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 4255-4268

  Zhang, Min ^a   Schaubel, Douglas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Average causal effect; Cox regression; Double robust estimator; Inverse weighting; Restricted mean lifetime; Right censoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVERAGE CAUSAL EFFECT; CADAVER DONOR; DOUBLE ROBUST ESTIMATOR; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT SPECIFIC SURVIVAL;

HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84870921713     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5511     Document Type: Article

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