Instrumental variable analysis to estimate treatment effects: a simulation study showing potential benefits of conditioning on hospital
Background: Instrumental variable (IV) analysis holds the potential to estimate treatment effects from observational data. IV analysis potentially circumvents unmeasured confounding but makes a number of assumptions, such as that the IV shares no common cause with the outcome. When using treatment p...
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BioMed Central Ltd
2022
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