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stat.AP2017
Regularization and Hierarchical Prior Distributions for Adjustment with Health Care Claims Data: Rethinking Comorbidity Scores
Jacob Spertus, Samrachana Adhikari, Sharon-Lise Normand
Health care claims data refer to information generated from interactions within health systems. They have been used in health services research for decades to assess effectiveness…
stat.ME2017
Bayesian Propensity Scores for High-Dimensional Causal Inference: A Comparison of Drug-Eluting to Bare-Metal Coronary Stents
Jacob Spertus, Sharon-Lise Normand
High-dimensional data can be useful for causal inference by providing many confounders that may bolster the plausibility of the ignorability assumption. Propensity score methods ar…