Weighted nearest neighbours-based control group selection method for observational studies.

Although in observational studies, propensity score matching is the most widely used balancing method, it has received much criticism. The main drawback of this method is that the individuals of the case and control groups are paired in the compressed one-dimensional space of propensity scores. In t...

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Main Authors: Szabolcs Szekér, Ágnes Vathy-Fogarassy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236531