Contrasting evidence within and between institutions that provide treatment in an observational study of alternate forms of anesthesia

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 107, Issue 499, 2012, Pages 901-915

  Zubizarreta, José R ^a   Neuman, Mark ^b   Silber, Jeffrey H ^c   Rosenbaum, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence factor; Fine balance; Optimal subset matching; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870697201     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2012.682533     Document Type: Article

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