Large sample bounds on the survivor average causal effect in the presence of a binary covariate with conditionally ignorable treatment assignment

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 143-163

  Freiman, Michael H ^a   Small, Dylan S ^b  

^a U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

causal inference; censoring by death; large sample bounds; principal stratification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; DEATH; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SURVIVOR AVERAGE CAUSAL EFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84910138123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15574679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijb-2013-0039     Document Type: Article

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