Selecting an appropriate caliper can be essential for achieving good balance with propensity score matching

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 226-235

  Lunt, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

caliper; covariate balance; matching; propensity score

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROPENSITY SCORE; RISK; SELECTION BIAS;

CALIPER; COVARIATE BALANCE; MATCHING; PROPENSITY SCORE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; PROPENSITY SCORE;

EID: 84891532381     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt212     Document Type: Article

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