The role of the c-statistic in variable selection for propensity score models

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 317-320

  Westreich, Daniel ^a   Cole, Stephen R ^b   Funk, Michele Jonsson ^b   Brookhart, M Alan ^b   Stürmer, Til ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCORDANCE STATISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 79951981015     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.2074     Document Type: Article

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