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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Daisy A. Shepherd, Benjamin R. Baer, Margarita Moreno-Betancur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-02100-6