Methodology

Covariate balance in a Bayesian propensity score analysis of beta blocker therapy in heart failure patients

Lawrence C McCandless¹^*, Paul Gustafson², Peter C Austin^3,^4,⁵ and Adrian R Levy⁶

¹ Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Canada

² Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Canada

³ Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada

⁴ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada

⁵ Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada

⁶ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Canada

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Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2009, 6:5 doi:10.1186/1742-5573-6-5

Published: 10 September 2009

Additional file 1:

Code for fitting Bayesian propensity analysis to a toy synthetic dataset. Computer code for implementing BPSA in the software package R.

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