Bias and variance of treatment effect estimators using propensity-score matching
Observational studies are an indispensable complement to randomized clinical trials (RCT) for comparison of treatment effectiveness. Often RCTs cannot be carried out due to the costs of the trial, ethical questions and rarity of the outcome. When noncompliance and missing data are prevalent, RCTs be...
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University of Iowa
2011
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Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4980 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4980&context=etd |