A dynamic adaptation of the propensity score adjustment for effectiveness analyses of ordinal doses of treatment

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 9-10, 2001, Pages 1487-1498

  Leon, Andrew C ^a   Mueller, Timothy I ^b   Solomon, David A ^b   Keller, Martin B ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADAPTATION; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DOSE RESPONSE; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATION; PROPENSITY SCORE ADJUSTMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MULTICENTER STUDIES; OBSERVER VARIATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035873795     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.685     Document Type: Article

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