Causal inference in longitudinal studies with history-restricted marginal structural models
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Causal inference in longitudinal studies with history-restricted marginal structural models.
A new class of Marginal Structural Models (MSMs), History-Restricted MSMs (HRMSMs), was recently introduced for longitudinal data for the purpose of defining causal parameters which may often be better suited for public health research or at least more practicable than MSMs (6, 2). HRMSMs allow investigators to analyze the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome based on a fixed, shorter and...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Electronic Journal of Statistics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1935-7524
DOI: 10.1214/07-ejs050