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Luo, Lan; Risk, Malcolm; Shi, Xu

Online causal inference with application to near real-time post-market vaccine safety surveillance. (English) Zbl 07923601

Stat. Med. 43, No. 14, 2734-2746 (2024).

MSC:

62P10 Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

Keywords:

causal inference; estimating equation; online estimation; safety surveillance; streaming data
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