Statistics in Medicine· 2015Q1· Review
Moving towards best practice when using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score to estimate causal treatment effects in observational studies
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A review of recent studies using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) reveals that most do not formally check for covariate balance after weighting, a critical step for valid causal effect estimation from observational data.
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