Instrumental Variables Estimation With Some Invalid Instruments and its Application to Mendelian Randomization

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 111, Issue 513, 2016, Pages 132-144

  Kang, Hyunseung ^a   Zhang, Anru ^a   Cai, T Tony ^a   Small, Dylan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Causal inference; Health related quality of life; Instrumental variable; Pleiotropy; 1penalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969752467     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.994705     Document Type: Article

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