Thinking of having a higher predictive power for your first-stage model in propensity score analysis? Think again

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 115-117

  Fu, Alex Z ^a   Li, Liang ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

c statistic; Predictive power; Propensity score; Propensity score first stage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBSERVER BIAS; OUTCOME VARIABLE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

EID: 44649182805     PISSN: 13873741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10742-008-0029-8     Document Type: Article

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