On the joint use of propensity and prognostic scores in estimation of the average treatment effect on the treated: A simulation study

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 3488-3508

  Leacy, Finbarr P ^a   Stuart, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias reduction; Confounding; Full matching; Mahalanobis metric; Observational data; Subclassification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PROCESS MODEL; PROGNOSTIC SCORE; PROPENSITY SCORE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CAUSALITY; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFECT MODIFIER, EPIDEMIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84905487760     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6030     Document Type: Article

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