Characterizing the effect of matching using linear propensity score methods with normal distributions

DOI10.1093/biomet/79.4.797zbMath0765.62098OpenAlexW2042225530MaRDI QIDQ4037730

Donald B. Rubin, Neal Thomas

Publication date: 16 May 1993

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/79.4.797

zbMATH Keywords

bias reductiondiscriminant analysisapproximationslogistic regressionvariance reductionobservational studiesanalytic expressionsnormal distributionsmatched samplingestimated scoresdiscriminant matchingnonrandomized studylinear propensity score methodspopulation scores

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05)

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