A Primer on Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting and Marginal Structural Models

• Published in: Emerging adulthood (Thousand Oaks, CA) Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 40 - 59
• Main Authors: Thoemmes, Felix, Ong, Anthony D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.02.2016; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Adults; Bias; Developmental tasks; Probability; Propensity; Structural models; Weighting; confounding; propensity scores; inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTWs); causal inference; marginal structural models (MSMs)

Emerging adulthood researchers are often interested in the effects of developmental tasks. The majority of transitions that occur during the period of early/emerging adulthood are not randomized; therefore, their effects on developmental trajectories are subject to potential bias due to confounding....