Invited commentary: Advancing propensity score methods in epidemiology

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 165, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1119-1121

  Oakes, J Michael ^a   Church, Timothy R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bias (epidemiology); Cohort studies; Confounding factors (epidemiology); Epidemiologic methods; Models, statistical; Propensity score calibration; Research design

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; CALIBRATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NOTE; RISK;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 34447116374     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwm072     Document Type: Review

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