Optimal pair matching with two control groups

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 422-434

  Lu, Bo ^a   Rosenbaum, Paul R ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assignment algorithm; Balanced incomplete block design; Bipartite matching; Multiple control groups; Nonbipartite matching; Observational studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042667793     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/1061860043470     Document Type: Review

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