Contrasting evidence within and between institutions that provide treatment in an observational study of alternate forms of anesthesia

DOI10.1080/01621459.2012.682533zbMATH Open1443.62397OpenAlexW2169578678WikidataQ36355463 ScholiaQ36355463MaRDI QIDQ4648533FDOQ4648533

Authors: José R. Zubizarreta, Mark Neuman, Jeffrey H. Silber, Paul R. Rosenbaum 

Publication date: 9 November 2012

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc4673003

Recommendations

• Evidence factors in observational studies
• Balanced Risk Set Matching
• Design of observational studies
• Substantial Gains in Bias Reduction from Matching with a Variable Number of Controls
• Optimal multivariate matching before randomization

zbMATH Keywords

sensitivity analysisevidence factorfine balanceoptimal subset matching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Paired and multiple comparisons; multiple testing (62J15)

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• optmatch
• DOS

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