Quintile stratification based on a misspecified propensity score in longitudinal treatment effectiveness analyses of ordinal doses

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 6114-6122

  Leon, Andrew C ^a   Hedeker, Donald ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Effectiveness; Misspecification; Ordinal doses; Propensity adjustment; Stratification

Indexed keywords

BINARY SEQUENCES; BIOMETRICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

MISSPECIFICATION; ORDINAL DOSES; PROPENSITY ADJUSTMENT;

THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

EID: 34547148019     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.12.021     Document Type: Article

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