Mahalanobis' distance and propensity score to construct a controlled matched group in a Brazilian study of health promotion and social determinants

In observational epidemiology it is usual to select a control group to study the effects of certain exposures on human health. Intervention studies are well known among epidemiologists but it is not very frequent in other areas of research. In this paper we propose the same idea of intervention stud...

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Main Authors: Valéria Troncoso Baltar, Clóvis Arlindo de Sousa, Marcia Faria Westphal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva 2014-09-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-790X2014000400668&lng=en&tlng=en