A new approach to causal inference in mortality studies with a sustained exposure period—application to control of the healthy worker survivor effect
A new approach to causal inference in mortality studies with a sustained exposure period—application to control of the healthy worker survivor effect
J. Robins
1986 · DOI: 10.1016/0270-0255(86)90088-6
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TLDR
A graphical approach to the identification and computation of causal parameters in mortality studies with sustained exposure periods is offered and an adverse effect of arsenic exposure on all-cause and lung cancer mortality which standard methods fail to detect is found.