Using the Standardized Difference to Compare the Prevalence of a Binary Variable Between Two Groups in Observational Research

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Summary

The utility and interpretation of the standardized difference for comparing the prevalence of dichotomous variables between two groups is explored, and a standardized difference of 10% is equivalent to having a phi coefficient of 0.05 for the correlation between treatment group and the binary variable.

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Published
2009-04-09
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Observational study, Covariate, Statistics, Strictly standardized mean difference, Mathematics

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