Moving towards best practice when using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score to estimate causal treatment effects in observational studies
The propensity score is defined as a subject's probability of treatment selection, conditional on observed baseline covariates. Weighting subjects by the inverse probability of treatment received creates a synthetic sample in which treatment assignment is independent of measured baseline covari...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2015
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4626409/ |