Matching Using Estimated Propensity Scores: Relating Theory to Practice

1996/03/01 by Donald B. Rubin, Neal Thomas · 1,079 citations
Mathematics · #Advanced Causal Inference Techniques #Computer science #Econometrics #Matching (statistics) #Mathematics #Propensity score matching #Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference #Statistical Methods and Inference #Statistics

paper · doi:10.2307/2533160

published in Biometrics 52(1), 249 (Oxford University Press)

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