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Abstract
Dr. Pearl invites researchers to justify their use of principal stratification. This comment explains how the use of principal stratification simplified a complex mediational problem encountered when evaluating a smoking cessation intervention's effect on reducing smoking withdrawal symptoms.Keywords: causal inference; mediation; principal stratification; smoking cessation interventions
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21686084 PMCID: PMC3114954 DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1330
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Biostat ISSN: 1557-4679 Impact factor: 0.968