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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xie, Diqiong
Other Authors: Jones, Michael P.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 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