Propensity score balance measures in pharmacoepidemiology: A simulation study

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 802-811

  Ali, M Sanni ^a   Groenwold, Rolf H H ^a,b   Pestman, Wiebe R ^c   Belitser, Svetlana V ^a   Roes, Kit C B ^b   Hoes, Arno W ^b   de Boer, Anthonius ^a   Klungel, Olaf H ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Balance measure; Confounding; Model selection; Pharmacoepidemiology; Propensity score

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; SAMPLE SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PROPENSITY SCORE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84905032256     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.3574     Document Type: Article

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