Keywords
Observational studyPropensity score matchingAnalysis of covarianceRandomized experimentMatching (statistics)CovariateRandomized controlled trialSelection biasMedicineStatisticsEconometricsMathematicsSurgery
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- 1996
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- book-chapter
- Pages
- 181-197
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Paul R. Rosenbaum
(1996).
6 Observational studies and nonrandomized experiments.
Handbook of statistics
, 181-197.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0169-7161(96)13008-x
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- 10.1016/s0169-7161(96)13008-x