Consistent causal effect estimation under dual misspecification and implications for confounder selection procedures

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1003-1008

  Gruber, Susan ^a   Van Der Laan, Mark J ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

causal effect; causal inference; collaborative double robustness; collaborative targeted maximum likelihood estimation; confounder selection; dual misspecification; propensity score; TMLE

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXPOSURE; LEARNING; MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; CAUSALITY; HUMAN; PROPENSITY SCORE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CAUSALITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPENSITY SCORE;

EID: 84948440777     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280212437451     Document Type: Review

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