Confounding-adjustment methods for the causal difference in medians
Abstract Background With continuous outcomes, the average causal effect is typically defined using a contrast of expected potential outcomes. However, in the presence of skewed outcome data, the expectation (population mean) may no longer be meaningful. In practice the typical approach is to continu...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-12-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-02100-6 |