Propensity scores: Method for matching on multiple variables in down syndrome research;Perspectives sur le leadership dans les organisations offrant des services aux personnes ayant une incapacité: Une étude exploratoire

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 348-357

  Blackford, Jennifer Urbano ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PROPENSITY SCORE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIRTH WEIGHT; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PROPENSITY SCORE; TENNESSEE;

EID: 74249105261     PISSN: 19349556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/1934-9556-47.5.348     Document Type: Article

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