Identification of causal intervention effects under contagion

Defining and identifying causal intervention effects for transmissible infectious disease outcomes is challenging because a treatment – such as a vaccine – given to one individual may affect the infection outcomes of others. Epidemiologists have proposed causal estimands to quantify effects of inter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cai Xiaoxuan, Loh Wen Wei, Crawford Forrest W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2021-04-01
Series:Journal of Causal Inference
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2019-0033