Using the Exterior Match to Compare Two Entwined Matched Control Groups

American Statistician

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 67-75

  Rosenbaum, Paul R ^a   Silber, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Matched comparisons; Optimal match

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878468381     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2013.769914     Document Type: Article

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