Confounding time dependent or not: introspection
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Longitudinal studies, where data are repeatedly collected on one subject over a period, are common in medical research. When effect of a time-varying exposure on an outcome of interest is measured at different time points, standard statistical methods fail to give robust estimate in the presence of time-dependent confounders. There is alternative method avoid, that is, inverse probability weighted estimation of marginal structural models the problems associated with standard approaches.
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