Discussion of “On Bayesian Estimation of Marginal Structural Models”

Olli Saarela,* David A. Stephens, Erica E. M. Moodie, and Marina B. Klein Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, 6th floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 3M7 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2K6 Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A2 Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, McGill University, 3650 Saint Urbain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2X 2P4 ∗email: olli.saarela@utoronto.ca

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