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An R-Based Landscape Validation of a Competing Risk Model
Published on: September 16, 2022
On Defense of the Hazard Ratio
1Irvine, California, USA.
Abstract:
In this short communication, we describe the recent debate on whether the hazard function should be used for causal inference in time-to-event studies and consider three different potential outcomes frameworks (by Rubin, Robins, and Pearl, respectively), as well as use the single-world intervention graph to show mathematically that the hazard function has causal interpretations under all three frameworks. In addition, we argue that the hazard ratio over time can provide a useful interpretation in practical settings.
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