Propensity-Score Matching as Panacea forCorrecting Self-Selection Bias in ObservationalStudies
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Copyright: © 2016 Liu E. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. *Corresponding author: Echu Liu, Department of Health Management and Policy, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO 63104, USA, Tel: (314) 977-1304; E-mail: [email protected]
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