Effect of Tuberculosis on the Survival of Women Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

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”Evidence regarding the effect of tuberculosis (TB) disease on progression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease is inconclusive."

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Performance of Propensity Score Calibration—A Simulation Study

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"Confounding can be a major source of bias in nonexperimental research. The authors recently introduced propensity score calibration (PSC), which combines propensity scores and regression calibration to address confounding by variables unobserved in the main study by using variables observed in a validation study."

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