gfoRmula: An R Package for Estimating the Effects of Sustained Treatment Strategies via the Parametric g-formula

Summary: Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effects of sustained treatment strategies, i.e., of (hypothetical) interventions involving time-varying treatments. When using observational data, estimating those effects requires adjustment for confounding. However, conventional re...

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Main Authors: Sean McGrath, Victoria Lin, Zilu Zhang, Lucia C. Petito, Roger W. Logan, Miguel A. Hernán, Jessica G. Young
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-06-01
Series:Patterns
Subjects:
R
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389920300088