What's New in the Quantification of Causal Effects from Longitudinal Cohort Studies: a Brief Introduction to Marginal Structural Models for Intensivists

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Journal Intensive Care Med

Specialty Critical Care

Date 2015 Jun 25

PMID 26104119

Citations 10

Authors

S Bailly

R Pirracchio

J F Timsit

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