Identification of causal effects in the presence of nonignorable missing outcome values

Biometrics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 278-288

  Mattei, Alessandra ^a   Mealli, Fabrizia ^a   Pacini, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bounds; Causal inference; Instrumental variables; Missing outcomes; Principal stratification

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS;

BOUND; CAUSAL INFERENCES; CONDITION; COVARIATES; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; MISSING OUTCOME; NEW APPROACHES; PRINCIPAL STRATIFICATION; SIMULATION DESIGN; SIMULATION STUDIES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOMETRY; DATA SET; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SIMULATION; WOMENS HEALTH;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; CAUSALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84902303341     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/biom.12136     Document Type: Article

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