Estimation of risk ratios in cohort studies with a common outcome: A simple and efficient two-stage approach

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 251-264

  Tchetgen, Eric Tchetgen ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doubly robust; Prevalence ratio; Risk ratio; Semiparametric efficient

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROPENSITY SCORE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ALBUMINURIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; METABOLISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

ALBUMINURIA; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PROPENSITY SCORE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84898612114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15574679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijb-2013-0007     Document Type: Article

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