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Ten things to remember about propensity scores.

Rolf H H GroenwoldOlaf M DekkersSaskia Le Cessie
Published in: European journal of endocrinology (2024)
Propensity score methods are popular to control for confounding in observational biomedical studies of risk factors or medical treatments. This paper focused on aspects of propensity score methods that often remain undiscussed, including unmeasured confounding, missing data, variable selection, statistical efficiency, estimands, the positivity assumption, and predictive performance of the propensity score model.
Keyphrases
  • risk factors
  • healthcare
  • electronic health record
  • cross sectional
  • big data