Mahalanobis' distance and propensity score to construct a controlled matched group in a Brazilian study of health promotion and social determinants

• Egile Nagusiak: Valéria Troncoso Baltar (Egilea), Clóvis Arlindo de Sousa (Egilea), Marcia Faria Westphal (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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In observational epidemiology it is usual to select a control group to study the effects of certain exposures on human health. Intervention studies are well known among epidemiologists but it is not very frequent in other areas of research. In this paper we propose the same idea of intervention stud...