Using propensity score matching in educational research

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 74-79

  Fan, Xitao ^a   Nowell, Dana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

analysis of covariance; causal inference; experimental design; nonexperimental design; observational study; propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650273657     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: 19349041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986210390635     Document Type: Article

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