Estimating effects with rare outcomes and high dimensional covariates: knowledge is power

DOI10.1515/em-2014-0020zbMath1416.92151OpenAlexW2405289722WikidataQ40191505 ScholiaQ40191505MaRDI QIDQ2001880

Sandro Galea, Jennifer Ahern, Laura Balzer, Mark J. Van der Laan

Publication date: 11 July 2019

Published in: Epidemiologic Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc5436729

zbMATH Keywords

semiparametric estimationcausal inferencebounded mean modelsrare outcomestargeted minimum loss-based estimation (TMLE)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

Uses Software

• R
• rms
• Matching
• SuperLearner

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