In order to answer our research question, we will make adjustments in the statistical analysis by using the propensity matching score method [ 29- 32].
In our project, we used a peptide designed to have specific secondary structure propensities in order to investigate the driving forces and conditions which lead to the β-sheet formation.
This process is regarded as optimal because it matches patients from two different phases depending on their propensity score in order to minimize the total distance between the propensity score of matched patients (each distance representing the absolute value of the difference between the two propensity scores of the matched patient pair).
Nevertheless, we added CCI score into the propensity analysis in order to reach the comparability of both cohorts and included CCI score and propensity score in multivariable and stratified analyses to control confounding in healthcare administrative databases [ 12, 28, 29].
Hamdar et al. [7] define and develop a quantitative aggressiveness propensity index in order to model driving behaviour by testing its proposal with a driving simulator.
We used propensity matching in order to ensure that patients and controls were equally balanced on baseline predictors for infection.
Participants will be weighted by a function of the propensity score in order to construct a pseudo population in which there is no confounding by observed variables.
This first step may involve super learning; second, updating the initial regression relying on a fit of the propensity score, in order to obtain an optimal bias-variance trade-off for the parameter of interest.
The economic policy efforts should then be based on the maximization of not only the individual entrepreneurship activities, q *, but also on the distribution of the propensities f in order to increase the number of entrepreneurs; that is, politicians should foster that entrepreneurs shift their propensity towards pure innovation (1 − δ), lowering their individual δ.
It is here that he comes right out and says it: He is an author with a "propensity to fib in order to make himself look better, or worse, whichever serves his purpose at the time".
