by Usha Govindarajulu | Jun 20, 2024 | Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
The goals of this paper were to provide a set of conditions for inverse probability weights (IPW) to target a subpopulation of the patients who have clinical equipose, establish a relationship between matching weights and overlap weight estimators, and use the beta...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Jan 3, 2024 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
January 3, 2023 In an article that appeared in Biometrical Journal, Le Bourdonnec et al (2023) discussed a method to address unmeasured confounding in cohort studies by an instrumental varible (IV) method for a time fixed expousre on an outcome trajectory, repeatedly...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Dec 20, 2023 | Biostatistics, Usha Govindarajulu
December 20, 2023 In article that appeared in Statistics in Medicine, Denz et al explored different methods for modeling of adjusted survival curves especially in observational studies, which tend to have issues with confounding. The authors also brought in...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Sep 14, 2023 | Biostatistics, Usha Govindarajulu
September 13, 2023 In their paper, the authors, Wang et al focused on estimation of casual effects of a treatment on survival outcomes with censoring with propensity score (PS) adjustment. They also used alternative measures of survival like restricted average causal...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Aug 2, 2023 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
August 2, 2023 In this article published in June online, Lancker et al describe a way for valid inference of hazard ratios from a Cox regression after variable selection. The problem has been that it is unknown which amount of covariates to use to control for...