Adjusting for bias introduced by instrumental variable estimation in the Cox proportional hazards model

Biostatistics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 80-96

  Martinez Camblor, Pablo ^a   Mackenzie, Todd ^b   Staiger, Douglas O ^c   Goodney, Philip P ^a   O'Malley, A James ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual frailty effect; Instrumental variable; Two stage residual inclusion; Unmeasured confounding.

Indexed keywords

BIOSTATISTICS; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS; BIOSTATISTICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 85058749354     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxx062     Document Type: Article

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