Evaluation of the Propensity score methods for estimating marginal odds ratios in case of small sample size

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Propensity score (PS) methods are increasingly used, even when sample sizes are small or treatments are seldom used. However, the relative performance of the two mainly recommended PS methods, namely PS-matching or inverse probabilit...

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Main Authors: Pirracchio Romain, Resche-Rigon Matthieu, Chevret Sylvie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/12/70