Causal inference with a quantitative exposure

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 315-335

  Zhang, Zhiwei ^a   Zhou, Jie ^a   Cao, Weihua ^a   Zhang, Jun ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Dose response relationship; double robustness; inverse probability weighting; outcome regression; propensity function; propensity score; stratification

Indexed keywords

EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRATIFICATION; ALGORITHM; BIOSTATISTICS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CAUSALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOSTATISTICS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84958700646     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280212452333     Document Type: Article

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