Inverse probability weighting for covariate adjustment in randomized studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 555-568

  Shen, Changyu ^a   Li, Xiaochun ^a   Li, Lingling ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Covariate adjustment; Efficiency; Inverse probability weighting; Objectivity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING BIAS; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLINICAL TRIALS; COVARIATE ADJUSTMENT; EFFICIENCY; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; OBJECTIVITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PENICILLAMINE; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84892478722     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5969     Document Type: Article

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