Estimating treatment effects in observational studies with both prevalent and incident cohorts

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 202-219

  Ning, Jing ^a   Hong, Chuan ^b   Li, Liang ^a   Huang, Xuelin ^a   Shen, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Incident cohort; MSC 2010: Primary 62N01; prevalent cohort; propensity score; sampling bias; secondary 62N02; selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017564647     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: 1708945X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.11317     Document Type: Article

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