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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The impact of differential censoring and covariate relationships on propensity score performance in a time-to-event setting: a simulation study

Hinman, Jessica 01 January 2017 (has links)
Objective: To assess the ability of propensity score methods to maintain covariate balance and minimize bias in the estimation of treatment effect in a time-to-event setting. Data Sources: Generated simulation model Study Design: Simulation study Data Collection: 6 scenarios with varying covariate relationships to treatment and outcome with 2 different censoring prevalences Principal Findings: As time lapses, balance achieved at baseline through propensity score methods between treated and untreated groups trends toward imbalance, particularly in settings with high rates of censoring. Furthermore, there is a high degree of variability in the performance of different propensity score models with respect to effect estimation. Conclusions: Caution should be used when incorporating propensity score analysis methods in survival analyses. In these settings, if model over-parameterization is a concern, Cox regression stratified on propensity score matched pairs often provides more accurate conditional treatment effect estimates than those of unstratified matched or IPT weighted Cox regression models.

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