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Balance; Goodness-of-fit; Observational study; Propensity score; Matching; Propensity-score matching; standardized difference; Bias
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Balance Diagnostics For Comparing The Distribution Of Baseline Covariates Between Treatment Groups In Propensity-Score Matched Samples, Peter C. Austin
Balance Diagnostics For Comparing The Distribution Of Baseline Covariates Between Treatment Groups In Propensity-Score Matched Samples, Peter C. Austin
Peter Austin
The propensity score is a subject’s probability of treatment, conditional on observed baseline covariates. Conditional on the true propensity score, treated and untreated subjects have similar distributions of observed baseline covariates. Propensity-score matching is a popular method of using the propensity score in the medical literature. Using this approach, matched sets of treated and untreated subjects with similar values of the propensity score are formed. Inferences about treatment effect made using propensity-score matching are valid only if, in the matched sample, treated and untreated subjects have similar distributions of measured baseline covariates. In this paper we discuss the following methods …