Combining propensity score matching with additional adjustments for prognostic covariates

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 95, Issue 450, 2000, Pages 573-585

  Rubin, Donald B ^a   Thomas, Neal ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias reduction; Causal inference; Covariance adjustment; Discriminant matching; Mahalanobis metric matching; Matched sampling; Nonrandomized studies; Observational studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542742319     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2000.10474233     Document Type: Article

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