Causal meta-analysis by integrating multiple observational studies with multivariate outcomes
Causal meta-analysis by integrating multiple observational studies with multivariate outcomes
ABSTRACT Integrating multiple observational studies to make unconfounded causal or descriptive comparisons of group potential outcomes in a large natural population is challenging. Moreover, retrospective cohorts, being convenience samples, are usually unrepresentative of the natural population of interest and have groups with unbalanced covariates. We propose a general covariate-balancing framework …