G-Computation
G-computation is a causal inference method for estimating the effect of an intervention or treatment on an outcome from observational data. Developed by James M. Robins in 1986, it provides a parametric approach to standardization that can handle time-varying exposures and confounders. The method estimates what the population outcome would be under different intervention scenarios by utilizing fitted outcome models.
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- Robins, J. M. (1986). A new approach to causal inference in mortality studies with sustained exposure periods: application to control of the healthy worker survivor effect. Mathematical Modelling, 7(9-12), 1393-1512. · DOI 10.1016/0270-0255(86)90088-6
- Taubman, S. L., Robins, J. M., Mittleman, M. A., & Hernán, M. A. (2009). Intervening on risk factors for coronary heart disease: an application of the parametric g-formula. International Journal of Epidemiology, 38(6), 1599-1611. · DOI 10.1093/ije/dyp192
- Ahern, J., Hubbard, A., & Galea, S. (2009). Estimating the effects of potential public health interventions on population disease burden: a step-by-step illustration of causal inference methods. American Journal of Epidemiology, 169(9), 1140-1147. · DOI 10.1093/aje/kwp015
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