Volume 27, Issue 12
Commentary

Developing practical recommendations for the use of propensity scores: Discussion of ‘A critical appraisal of propensity score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003’ by Peter Austin, Statistics in Medicine

Elizabeth A. Stuart

Corresponding Author

E-mail address: estuart@jhsph.edu

Departments of Mental Health and Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.

Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author
First published: 20 February 2008
Citations: 65
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