Estimating Effects of Nursing Intervention via Propensity Score Analysis
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propensity score analysis
Methods for propensity score analysis (PSA) originated with Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983), as vehicles to sharpen and clarify treatment group comparisons in observational studies. Although highly recommended by many statisticians, and applied often in medical sciences, PSA has seen relatively few applications in the social and behavioral sciences. This paper aims to facilitate sound PSA applicatio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nursing Research
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0029-6562
DOI: 10.1097/nnr.0b013e31818c66f6