A refreshing account of principal stratification

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mealli, Fabrizia ^a   Mattei, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Causal Inference; Mediation Analysis; Principal Causal Effects; Principal Stratificafition; Surrogacy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRINCIPAL STRATIFICATION; RANDOM SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BIOSTATISTICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOSTATISTICS; CAUSALITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84907672917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15574679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1557-4679.1380     Document Type: Article

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