Effect of breastfeeding on gastrointestinal infection in infants: A targeted maximum likelihood approach for clustered longitudinal data

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 703-725

  Schnitzer, Mireille E ^a   van der Laan, Mark J ^b   Moodie, Erica E M ^c   Platt, Robert W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Causal inference; G computation; Inverse probability weighting; Marginal effects; Missing data; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903777968     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/14-AOAS727     Document Type: Article

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