SERIO, CLELIA DI; RINOTT, YOSEF; SCARSINI, MARCO - In: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 36 (2009) 3, pp. 463-480
In the context of survival analysis it is possible that increasing the value of a covariate "X" has a beneficial effect on a failure time, but this effect is reversed when conditioning on any possible value of another covariate "Y". When studying causal effects and influence of covariates on a...