In a new book, C. Thi Nguyen looks to his personal passions — from video games to yo-yoing — to illuminate the downside of our increasingly gamified world. Why in some games is it fun and satisfying ...

Objective Observational studies and register data provide researchers with ample opportunities to obtain answers to questions that randomized controlled trials cannot answer for organizational or ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Propensity score methods have become a cornerstone of modern causal inference, enabling researchers to approximate the conditions of randomized experiments in observational ...

A panelist discusses how a large propensity score–matched analysis of 1300 patients aged 60-75 found similar all-cause mortality between intensive chemotherapy and azacitidine plus venetoclax, but ...

Abstract: Post-click conversion rate (CVR) is a reliable indicator of online customers’ preferences, making it crucial for developing recommender systems. A major challenge in predicting CVR is severe ...

Patients with resected CCA undergoing curative surgery, with or without AC, were identified from three centers in Thailand. Patients with R2 resection and 30 days postoperative death were excluded.

Propensity scores have been used to reduce bias in observational studies in many fields and are becoming more widely used in cardiovascular research. 1 The goal of this statistical primer is to ...

Propensity score is one of the most commonly used score functions in adjusting for covariates effect in statistical inference. It is important to understand the ...