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标题：Simultaneous sensitivity analysis for observational studies using full matching or matching with multiple controls
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作者：Joseph L. Gastwirth ; Abba M. Krieger ; Paul R. Rosenbaum 等
期刊名称：Statistics and Its Interface
印刷版ISSN：1938-7989
电子版ISSN：1938-7997
出版年度：2009
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：203-211
DOI：10.4310/SII.2009.v2.n2.a10
出版社：International Press
摘要：In a matched observational study, a sensitivity analysis asks how the conclusions of the study would change if the matching had failed to adjust for an unobserved covariate with particular attributes. A ‘simultaneous’ sensitivity analysis characterizes the unobserved covariate $u$ in terms of two sensitivity parameters which relate $u$ to treatment and to response. In a previous paper, we proposed a simultaneous sensitivity analysis for matched pairs. The current paper extends this to matching with multiple controls and to full matching, using the technique of asymptotic separability. An example concerns the possibility that the military caused an increase in smoking by soldiers by various programs that subsidized cigarettes. Full Text (PDF format)