tmle: An R package for targeted maximum likelihood estimation

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Gruber, Susan ^a   van der Laan, Mark J ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Controlled direct effect; MSM; R; Targeted maximum likelihood estimation; TMLE

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872794089     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v051.i13     Document Type: Article

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