Weight trimming and propensity score weighting

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Brian K ^a   Lessler, Justin ^b   Stuart, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA MINING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING; PROPENSITY SCORE; RANDOM FOREST; WEIGHT REDUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPENSITY SCORE;

EID: 79953304087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018174     Document Type: Article

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