Practice of causal inference with the propensity of being zero or one: assessing the effect of arbitrary cutoffs of propensity scores |
Kang, Joseph
(Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University)
Chan, Wendy (Department of Statistics, Northwestern University) Kim, Mi-Ok (Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) Steiner, Peter M. (Department of Educational Pscychology, University of Wisconsin) |
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