Estimation of the causal effects of time-varying treatments in nested case-control studies using marginal structural Cox models

• Published in: Biometrics Vol. 80; no. 1
• Main Authors: Takeuchi, Yoshinori, Hagiwawa, Yasuhiro, Komukai, Sho, Matsuyama, Yutaka
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 29.01.2024
• Subjects: case-control matching; inverse probability weighting; treatment-confounder feedback; survival analysis; causal inference

When estimating the causal effects of time-varying treatments on survival in nested case-control (NCC) studies, marginal structural Cox models (Cox-MSMs) with inverse probability weights (IPWs) are a natural approach. However, calculating IPWs from the cases and controls is difficult because they ar...