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Propensity score matching offers more efficient biomarker discovery in cancer research

Thanks to advances in molecular sequencing, scientists have generated a wealth of data from the genome, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome. However, these "-omics" datasets are complex and there ...
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Propensity Score: an Alternative Method of Analyzing Treatment Effects

1. Black N: Why we need observational studies to evaluate the effectiveness of health care. BMJ 1996; 312:1215–8 CrossRef 2. McKee M, Britton A, Black N, McPherson K, Sanderson C, Bain C: Methods in ...
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The safety assessment of robotic versus laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric cancer using a propensity score matching method.

Activation of central/effector memory T cells in advanced gastric cancer patients treated with antiprogrammed death-1 antibody. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2019 Gastrointestinal Cancers ...
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Causal inference under selection on observables in operations management research: Matching methods and synthetic controls

The majority of recent empirical papers in operations management (OM) employ observational data to investigate the causal effects of a treatment, such as program or policy adoption. However, as ...
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Recurrence and Survival Outcomes After Anatomic Segmentectomy Versus Lobectomy for Clinical Stage I Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Propensity-Matched Analysis

Cyclophosphamide Compared With Ifosfamide in Consolidation Treatment of Standard-Risk Ewing Sarcoma: Results of the Randomized Noninferiority Euro-EWING99-R1 Trial A retrospective data set including ...