Weighted-bootstrap alignment of explanatory variables

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1817-1827

  Hall, Peter ^a,b   Leng, Xiaoyan ^c   Müller, Hans Georg ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Distribution function; French Canadian women; Group comparison; Matching; Observational study; Odds ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449094557     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.06.032     Document Type: Article

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