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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

Peter C. Austin, Elizabeth A. Stuart

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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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