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Characterizing the Effect of Matching Using Linear Propensity Score Methods with Normal Distributions

Matched sampling is a standard technique for controlling bias in observational studies due to specific covariates. Since Rosenbaum & Rubin (1983), multivariate matching methods based on estimated ...
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The safety assessment of robotic versus laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric cancer using a propensity score matching method.

Activation of central/effector memory T cells in advanced gastric cancer patients treated with antiprogrammed death-1 antibody. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2019 Gastrointestinal Cancers ...
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Causal inference under selection on observables in operations management research: Matching methods and synthetic controls

The majority of recent empirical papers in operations management (OM) employ observational data to investigate the causal effects of a treatment, such as program or policy adoption. However, as ...
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The Schooling Costs of Teenage Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing: Analysis with a within-School Propensity-Score-Matching Estimator

Teen out-of-wedlock mothers have lower education and earnings than do peers who have children later. This study uses the National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988 to examine the extent to which ...