Comparison of different matching methods in observational studies and sensitivity analysis: The relation between depression and STAI-2 scores

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 1, 2009, Pages 1876-1884

  Ankarali, Handan C ^a   Sumbuloglu, Vildan ^a   Yazici, Ayse Canan ^b   Yalug, Irem ^c   Selekler, Macit ^c  

^a ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Matching methods; Nearest neighbor matching; Observational studies; Propensity scores; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MATCHING METHODS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR MATCHING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROPENSITY SCORE; RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SENSITIVITY-OF-RESULTS; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 56349084254     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.12.026     Document Type: Article

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