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Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, dead or alive
Anders Huitfeldt
In the 1958 paper "Shall we count the living or the dead", Canadian physician and biostatistician Mindel C. Sheps proposed a novel approach to choice of effect measure, which resol…
Shall we count the living or the dead?
Anders Huitfeldt, Matthew P. Fox, Eleanor J. Murray +2
In the 1958 paper "Shall we count the living or the dead?", Mindel C. Sheps proposed a principled solution to the familiar problem of asymmetry of the relative risk. We provide cau…
The choice of effect measure for binary outcomes: Introducing counterfactual outcome state transition parameters
Anders Huitfeldt, Andrew Goldstein, Sonja A. Swanson
Standard measures of effect, including the risk ratio, the odds ratio, and the risk difference, are associated with a number of well-described shortcomings, and no consensus exists…
Effect heterogeneity and variable selection for standardizing causal effects to a target population
Anders Huitfeldt, Sonja A. Swanson, Mats Julius Stensrud +1
The participants in randomized trials and other studies used for causal inference are often not representative of the populations seen by clinical decision-makers. To account for d…
On the collapsibility of measures of effect in the counterfactual causal framework
Anders Huitfeldt, Mats Julius Stensrud, Etsuji Suzuki
A measure of association is said to be collapsible over a set of baseline covariates if the marginal value of the measure of association is equal to a weighted average of the strat…