Interval estimation for treatment effects using propensity score matching

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2230-2256

  Hill, Jennifer ^a   Reiter, Jerome P ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Matching; Observational study; Propensity score; Randomization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERNAL BIAS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREMATURITY; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING ERROR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745588280     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2277     Document Type: Article

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