Propensity Score Methods for Confounding Control in Nonexperimental Research

Overview

Journal Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2013 Sep 12

PMID 24021692

Citations 244

Authors

M Alan Brookhart

Richard Wyss

J Bradley Layton

Til Sturmer

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