Comparing treatments via the propensity score: Stratification or modeling?

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-43

  Myers, Jessica A ^a   Louis, Thomas A ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Causal inference; Generalized additive model; Nonlinear modeling; Observational study; Optimal stratification; Propensity score

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; HEALTH INSURANCE; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRATIFICATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDITY; VARIANCE;

EID: 84859099785     PISSN: 13873741     EISSN: 15729400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10742-012-0080-3     Document Type: Article

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