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SUBMITTER: Stuart EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5784842 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Developmental psychology 20080301 2
Matching methods such as nearest neighbor propensity score matching are increasingly popular techniques for controlling confounding in nonexperimental studies. However, simple k:1 matching methods, which select k well-matched comparison individuals for each treated individual, are sometimes criticized for being overly restrictive and discarding data (the unmatched comparison individuals). The authors illustrate the use of a more flexible method called full matching. Full matching makes use of al ...[more]