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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2021-04-01
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Series: | Journal of Causal Inference |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2019-0033 |