An Introduction To Instrumental Variables For epidemiologists
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An introduction to instrumental variables for epidemiologists.
Instrumental-variable (IV) methods were invented over 70 years ago, but remain uncommon in epidemiology. Over the past decade or so, non-parametric versions of IV methods have appeared that connect IV methods to causal and measurement-error models important in epidemiological applications. This paper provides an introduction to those developments, illustrated by an application of IV methods to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ije.a019909