Nature

Propensity score matching analysis of the effect of four or more antenatal care visits on basic childhood immunization in Ethiopia

Globally, immunization prevents 3.5 to 5 million deaths annually from common childhood diseases. Several observational studies evidenced that childhood immunization was linked to mothers’ Antenatal ...
Medical Xpress

Propensity score matching offers more efficient biomarker discovery in cancer research

Thanks to advances in molecular sequencing, scientists have generated a wealth of data from the genome, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome. However, these "-omics" datasets are complex and there ...
Healio

Study: Propensity scores are useful to control measured confounders

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The authors reported that both propensity score matching and propensity score weighting distinguish between the ...
Nature

Propensity score-matching analysis comparing laparoscopic and open pancreaticoduodenectomy in elderly patients

There is little evidence on the safety and benefits of laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy (LPD) in elderly patients; therefore, we evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of this procedure by ...
ascopubs.org

Propensity Score–Matched External Controls in Rare Disease Trials: A Promising Tool Requiring Rigorous Validation

Addition of Intravesical Recombinant Bacillus Calmette-Guérin to Perioperative Chemoimmunotherapy in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: Primary Analysis of the Single-Arm Phase II Trial SAKK 06/19 The ...
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Propensity Score Matching for Bias Reduction in Genomic Profiling

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