Confounding adjustment via a semi-automated high-dimensional propensity score algorithm: an application to electronic medical records.

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Published in Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf on June 30, 2011

Authors

Sengwee Toh1, Luis A García Rodríguez, Miguel A Hernán

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA. darrentoh@post.harvard.edu

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