Propensity score methods and unobserved covariate imbalance: Comments on "squeezing the balloon"

Health Services Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1074-1082

  Ali, M Sanni ^a   Groenwold, Rolf H H ^b   Klungel, Olaf H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

HUMANS; PROPENSITY SCORE;

EID: 84901048562     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12152     Document Type: Article

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