Causal inference for Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon rank sum and other nonparametric statistics

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1261-1271

  Wu, P ^a   Han, Y ^a   Chen, T ^a   Tu, X M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterfactual outcome; Functional response models; Kendall's ; Outliers; U statistics based generalized estimating equations (UGEE)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL INFERENCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

COUNTERFACTUAL OUTCOME; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE MODELS; KENDALL'S Τ; OUTLIERS; U-STATISTICS-BASED GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS (UGEE);

ADOLESCENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896697950     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6026     Document Type: Article

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