Comparison of approaches to weight truncation for marginal structural Cox models

Epidemiologic Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-20

  Xiao, Yongling ^b   Moodie, Erica E M ^a   Abrahamowicz, Michal ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Institut National d'Excellence en Sante et en Services Sociaux INESSS   (Canada)

Author keywords

IPTW estimator; Marginal structural model; Positivity assumption; Survival analysis; Weight truncation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892889543     PISSN: 21949263     EISSN: 2161962X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/em-2012-0006     Document Type: Article

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