Identification and estimation of survivor average causal effects

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 3601-3628

  Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Double robust; Principal stratification; Sensitivity analysis; Truncation by death

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SURVIVAL; SURVIVOR AVERAGE CAUSAL EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGING; COGNITION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; SMOKING; SURVIVOR;

AGING; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SMOKING; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84905578061     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6181     Document Type: Article

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