Re: [R] Matching patients

2011-02-02 Thread Bill Hyman
Hi Bernardo, Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Bill - Original Message From: Bernardo Rangel Tura To: Bill Hyman Sent: Wed, February 2, 2011 12:55:56 AM Subject: Re: [R] Matching patients On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 11:01 -0800, Bill Hyman wrote: > May I ask a clinical question? Fo

Re: [R] Matching patients

2011-02-01 Thread Carrie Li
Here is a paper that gives an review of matching Elizabeth A. Stuart. (2010) Matching Methods for Causal Inference: A Review and a Look Forward. Statistical Science; 25(1):1-21. In the paper, there is a list of R packages that does matching. hope this helps. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Bi

Re: [R] Matching patients

2011-02-01 Thread Ravi Varadhan
- Original Message - From: Bill Hyman Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 2:04 pm Subject: [R] Matching patients To: r-help@r-project.org > May I ask a clinical question? For a trial, we have a treatment group > of small > size, say 30 patients. We want to selectmatching control

[R] Matching patients

2011-02-01 Thread Bill Hyman
May I ask a clinical question? For a trial, we have a treatment group of small size, say 30 patients. We want to selectmatching control patients from a bigger group (100 patients) in terms of several clinical variables, such as age, tumor stage etc. This practice is to select the closest matchin