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ArticleJournal of statistical software2017

simcausal R Package: Conducting Transparent and Reproducible Simulation Studies of Causal Effect Estimation with Complex Longitudinal Data.

Oleg Sofrygin, Mark J van der Laan, Romain Neugebauer

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Article in Journal of statistical software, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Oleg SofryginDOR, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, University of California, Berkeley.
Mark J van der LaanUniversity of California, Berkeley.
Romain NeugebauerDOR, Kaiser Permanente Northern California.

Funding

Targeted Learning using adaptive designs for HIV Epidemic control in East AfricaR01AI074345 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI PETERSEN, MAYA LIV, VANDERLAAN, MARK J · 2007 to 2023
$6.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI074345
6 · The paper itself

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causal inferencecausal modeldirected acyclic graphmarginal structural modelRsimulationstructural equation model

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PMID29104515
PMCPMC5667661

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