A practical guide for using propensity score weighting in R

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 1-8

  Olmos, Antonio ^a   Govindasamy, Priyalatha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

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