On flexible inverse probability of treatment and intensity weighting: Informative censoring, variable selection, and weight trimming

• Published in: Statistical methods in medical research Vol. 34; no. 5; p. 915
• Main Authors: Tompkins, Grace, Dubin, Joel A, Wallace, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.05.2025
• Subjects: Bias; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Humans; Longitudinal Studies; Models, Statistical; Observational Studies as Topic - statistics & numerical data; Probability; informative observations; nonrandomized treatments; censoring; weighting; Irregular longitudinal data

Many observational studies feature irregular longitudinal data, where the observation times are not common across individuals in the study. Furthermore, the observation times may be related to the longitudinal outcome. In this setting, failing to account for the informative observation process may r...