Developing practical recommendations for the use of propensity scores: Discussion of 'A critical appraisal of propensity score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003' by Peter Austin, Statistics in Medicine

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2062-2065

  Stuart, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT SELECTION; SELECTION BIAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44649111276     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3207     Document Type: Note

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