Article
Instrumental variable analysis of multiplicative models with potentially invalid instruments.
Statistics in medicine - 20 Dec 2016
Shardell Michelle, Ferrucci Luigi
Abstract excerpt
Instrumental variable (IV) methods have potential to consistently estimate the causal effect of an exposure on an outcome in the presence of unmeasured confounding. However, validity of IV methods relies on strong assumptions, some of which cannot be conclusively verified from observational data. One such assumption is that the effect of the proposed instrument on the outcome is completely mediated by the...
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