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SUBMITTER: Lee H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4820319 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Hana H Hudgens Michael G MG Cai Jianwen J Cole Stephen R SR
Statistica Sinica 20160401 2
A common objective of biomedical cohort studies is assessing the effect of a time-varying treatment or exposure on a survival time. In the presence of time-varying confounders, marginal structural models fit using inverse probability weighting can be employed to obtain a consistent and asymptotically normal estimator of the causal effect of a time-varying treatment. This article considers estimation of parameters in the semiparametric marginal structural Cox model (MSCM) from a case-cohort study ...[more]