Propensity score stratification for observational comparison of repeated binary outcomes

Statistics and its Interface

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 489-498

  Leon, Andrew C ^a   Hedeker, Donald ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias reduction; Propensity adjustment; Stratification; Treatment effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864383201     PISSN: 19387989     EISSN: 19387997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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