James M Robins

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Top papers

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1 A structural approach to selection bias. Epidemiology 2004 16.44
2 Transmissibility of 1918 pandemic influenza. Nature 2004 16.14
3 Transmission dynamics and control of severe acute respiratory syndrome. Science 2003 14.70
4 Doubly robust estimation in missing data and causal inference models. Biometrics 2005 9.67
5 Methotrexate and mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective study. Lancet 2002 9.66
6 Instruments for causal inference: an epidemiologist's dream? Epidemiology 2006 8.50
7 Observational studies analyzed like randomized experiments: an application to postmenopausal hormone therapy and coronary heart disease. Epidemiology 2008 6.87
8 Long-term effectiveness of potent antiretroviral therapy in preventing AIDS and death: a prospective cohort study. Lancet 2005 6.60
9 On the efficacy of screening for breast cancer. Int J Epidemiol 2004 6.30
10 Results of multivariable logistic regression, propensity matching, propensity adjustment, and propensity-based weighting under conditions of nonuniform effect. Am J Epidemiol 2005 6.20
11 The effect of combined antiretroviral therapy on the overall mortality of HIV-infected individuals. AIDS 2010 5.85
12 Effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy on time to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or death using marginal structural models. Am J Epidemiol 2003 5.81
13 Estimating causal effects from epidemiological data. J Epidemiol Community Health 2006 5.61
14 When to initiate combined antiretroviral therapy to reduce mortality and AIDS-defining illness in HIV-infected persons in developed countries: an observational study. Ann Intern Med 2011 5.35
15 Comparison of dynamic treatment regimes via inverse probability weighting. Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol 2006 5.25
16 When is baseline adjustment useful in analyses of change? An example with education and cognitive change. Am J Epidemiol 2005 4.54
17 Estimating the causal effect of zidovudine on CD4 count with a marginal structural model for repeated measures. Stat Med 2002 4.15
18 Dynamic regime marginal structural mean models for estimation of optimal dynamic treatment regimes, Part I: main content. Int J Biostat 2010 3.97
19 Credible Mendelian randomization studies: approaches for evaluating the instrumental variable assumptions. Am J Epidemiol 2012 3.77
20 Structural accelerated failure time models for survival analysis in studies with time-varying treatments. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2005 3.05
21 Sensitivity analyses for unmeasured confounding assuming a marginal structural model for repeated measures. Stat Med 2004 2.87
22 The identification of synergism in the sufficient-component-cause framework. Epidemiology 2007 2.77
23 Causal directed acyclic graphs and the direction of unmeasured confounding bias. Epidemiology 2008 2.60
24 Directed acyclic graphs, sufficient causes, and the properties of conditioning on a common effect. Am J Epidemiol 2007 2.58
25 When to start treatment? A systematic approach to the comparison of dynamic regimes using observational data. Int J Biostat 2010 2.50
26 Intervening on risk factors for coronary heart disease: an application of the parametric g-formula. Int J Epidemiol 2009 2.48
27 Marginal structural models for estimating the effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy initiation on CD4 cell count. Am J Epidemiol 2005 2.20
28 A Comparison of Agent-Based Models and the Parametric G-Formula for Causal Inference. Am J Epidemiol 2017 2.05
29 Generation interval contraction and epidemic data analysis. Math Biosci 2008 2.04
30 Determining the effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy on changes in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA viral load using a marginal structural left-censored mean model. Am J Epidemiol 2007 2.00
31 Multiply robust inference for statistical interactions. J Am Stat Assoc 2008 1.98
32 Second look at the spread of epidemics on networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2007 1.90
33 Four types of effect modification: a classification based on directed acyclic graphs. Epidemiology 2007 1.83
34 Incorporating prior beliefs about selection bias into the analysis of randomized trials with missing outcomes. Biostatistics 2003 1.76
35 Comparative effectiveness of dynamic treatment regimes: an application of the parametric g-formula. Stat Biosci 2011 1.73
36 Identifiability, exchangeability and confounding revisited. Epidemiol Perspect Innov 2009 1.65
37 Estimating absolute risks in the presence of nonadherence: an application to a follow-up study with baseline randomization. Epidemiology 2010 1.64
38 Network-based analysis of stochastic SIR epidemic models with random and proportionate mixing. J Theor Biol 2007 1.62
39 Randomized trials analyzed as observational studies. Ann Intern Med 2013 1.60
40 On doubly robust estimation in a semiparametric odds ratio model. Biometrika 2009 1.57
41 Marginal structural models for sufficient cause interactions. Am J Epidemiol 2010 1.52
42 Weight Loss and Coronary Heart Disease: Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding by Undiagnosed Disease. Epidemiology 2016 1.39
43 Early versus deferred antiretroviral therapy for HIV. N Engl J Med 2009 1.35
44 Using Big Data to Emulate a Target Trial When a Randomized Trial Is Not Available. Am J Epidemiol 2016 1.29
45 Dynamic regime marginal structural mean models for estimation of optimal dynamic treatment regimes, Part II: proofs of results. Int J Biostat 2010 1.29
46 Pandemic influenza: risk of multiple introductions and the need to prepare for them. PLoS Med 2006 1.26
47 Effect decomposition in the presence of an exposure-induced mediator-outcome confounder. Epidemiology 2014 1.25
48 Improved double-robust estimation in missing data and causal inference models. Biometrika 2012 1.22
49 Relation between three classes of structural models for the effect of a time-varying exposure on survival. Lifetime Data Anal 2009 1.14
50 The effect of efavirenz versus nevirapine-containing regimens on immunologic, virologic and clinical outcomes in a prospective observational study. AIDS 2012 1.11
51 Effectiveness of early antiretroviral therapy initiation to improve survival among HIV-infected adults with tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study. PLoS Med 2011 1.08
52 Selecting on treatment: a pervasive form of bias in instrumental variable analyses. Am J Epidemiol 2015 1.07
53 On weighting approaches for missing data. Stat Methods Med Res 2011 1.05
54 A mapping between interactions and interference: implications for vaccine trials. Epidemiology 2012 0.97
55 Identification, estimation and approximation of risk under interventions that depend on the natural value of treatment using observational data. Epidemiol Method 2014 0.92
56 Time-dependent cross ratio estimation for bivariate failure times. Biometrika 2011 0.92
57 Higher Order Inference On A Treatment Effect Under Low Regularity Conditions. Stat Probab Lett 2011 0.91
58 Boosted lopinavir- versus boosted atazanavir-containing regimens and immunologic, virologic, and clinical outcomes: a prospective study of HIV-infected individuals in high-income countries. Clin Infect Dis 2015 0.83
59 Definition and evaluation of the monotonicity condition for preference-based instruments. Epidemiology 2015 0.82
60 Re: Causality and causal inference in epidemiology: the need for a pluralistic approach. Int J Epidemiol 2016 0.78
61 When to Monitor CD4 Cell Count and HIV RNA to Reduce Mortality and AIDS-Defining Illness in Virologically Suppressed HIV-Positive Persons on Antiretroviral Therapy in High-Income Countries: A Prospective Observational Study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2016 0.78
62 Multiple outbreaks and flu containment plans. Science 2006 0.76
63 The Impact of Different CD4 Cell-Count Monitoring and Switching Strategies on Mortality in HIV-Infected African Adults on Antiretroviral Therapy: An Application of Dynamic Marginal Structural Models. Am J Epidemiol 2015 0.75
64 Introduction. Am J Addict 2010 0.75