Optimal caliper widths for propensity-score matching when estimating differences in means and differences in proportions in observational studies

In a study comparing the effects of two treatments, the propensity score is the probability of assignment to one treatment conditional on a subject's measured baseline covariates. Propensity-score matching is increasingly being used to estimate the effects of exposures using observational data....

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Main Author: Austin, Peter C
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3120982/