Balancing Covariates via Propensity Score Weighting

Covariate balance is crucial for unconfounded descriptive or causal comparisons. However, lack of balance is common in observational studies. This article considers weighting strategies for balancing covariates. We define a general class of weights-the balancing weights-that balance the weighted dis...

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Published in:Journal of the American Statistical Association 2018-01, Vol.113 (521), p.390-400
Main Authors: Li, Fan, Morgan, Kari Lock, Zaslavsky, Alan M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Balancing
Balancing weights
Causal inference
Clinical equipoise
Confounding
Exact balance
Observational studies
Overlap weights
Probability
probability analysis
Propensity
Property
Regression analysis
Statistical methods
Statistics
Theory and Methods
variance
Weighting
Weighting methods
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