Bias associated with using the estimated propensity score as a regression covariate

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 74-87

  Hade, Erinn M ^a   Lu, Bo ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Matching; Observational studies; Stratification; Weighting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROBABILITY; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REGRESSION COVARIATE; SELECTION BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRATIFICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

MATCHING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES; STRATIFICATION; WEIGHTING;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; PROPENSITY SCORE;

EID: 84889643731     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5884     Document Type: Article

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