An Information-Theoretic Measure for Balance Assessment in Comparative Clinical Studies
Limitations of statistics currently used to assess balance in observation samples include their insensitivity to shape discrepancies and their dependence upon sample size. The Jensen−Shannon divergence (JSD) is an alternative approach to quantifying the lack of balance among treatment grou...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-02-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/2/218 |