The essential role of balance tests in propensity-matched observational studies: Comments on '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 2050-2054

  Hansen, Ben B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; BODY MASS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOM SAMPLE; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVATION; PATIENT SELECTION; SELECTION BIAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44649180523     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3208     Document Type: Note

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