Methods for dealing with time-dependent confounding

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1584-1618

  Daniel, R M ^a   Cousens, S N ^a   De Stavola, B L ^a   Kenward, M G ^a   Sterne, J A C ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

G computation formula; G estimation; Inverse probability weighting; Marginal structural model; Structural nested model; Time dependent confounding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; G COMPUTATION FORMULA; G ESTIMATION OF STRUCTURAL NESTED MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTED ESTIMATION OF MARGINAL STRUCTURAL MODEL; MARGINAL STRUCTURAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; STABILIZED INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHT; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STRUCTURAL NESTED MODEL; TIME DEPENDENT CONFOUNDING; TIME FIXED CONFOUNDING;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84876340980     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5686     Document Type: Article

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