JSM Activity #213

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213 Applied Session Tue, 8/5/03, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM H-Union Square 13
Propensity Scores, Instrumental Variables, and the Control of Confounding - Contributed - Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Charles E. McCulloch, University of California, San Francisco
     8:35 AM   Estimation of Causal Treatment Effects Using the Propensity Score — Jared Lunceford, Merck & Co., Inc.; Marie Davidian, North Carolina State University
     8:50 AM   Polydesigns in Studies of Causal Effects — Fan Li, Johns Hopkins University; Ravi Varadhan, Johns Hopkins University; Constantine E. Frangakis, Johns Hopkins University
     9:05 AM   Impact of Propensity Scores on Estimating Cost Effectiveness of Cancer Treatments — Nandita Mitra, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Alka Indurkhya, Harvard School of Public Health
     9:20 AM   Preconceptional Folate Use and Risk of a Multiple Birth: Measurement Error, Confounding and Effect Modification by In Vitro Fertilization — Stein Emil Vollset, University of Bergen; Hakon K. Gjessing, University of Bergen; Anne Tandberg, Haukeland University Hospital; Thorbjorn Ronning, University of Bergen; Valborg Baste, Medical Birth Registry of Norway
     9:35 AM   Weighting Methods to Adjust for Nonresponse to Epidemiologic Surveys in the Presence of Unknown Eligibility — Timothy R. Church, University of Minnesota; Steven J. Mongin, University of Minnesota
     9:50 AM   Floor Discussion
 

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