gfoRmula

Parametric G-Formula

Lucia C. Petito, Miguel A. Hernán, Jessica G. Young, Roger W. Logan, Victoria Lin, Zilu Zhang, Jing Li, Sean McGrath

Last update: 30 January 2024

Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0

Software version identifier: 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 0.2.1, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.4

Description

Implements the parametric g-formula algorithm of Robins (1986) <doi:10.1016/0270-0255(86)90088-6>. The g-formula can be used to estimate the causal effects of hypothetical time-varying treatment interventions on the mean or risk of an outcome from longitudinal data with time-varying confounding. This package allows: 1) binary or continuous/multi-level time-varying treatments; 2) different types of outcomes (survival or continuous/binary end of follow-up); 3) data with competing events or truncation by death and loss to follow-up and other types of censoring events; 4) different options for handling competing events in the case of survival outcomes; 5) a random measurement/visit process; 6) joint interventions on multiple treatments; and 7) general incorporation of a priori knowledge of the data structure.

Cites work

A new approach to causal inference in mortality studies with a sustained exposure period—application to control of the healthy worker survivor effect

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