[R] Matching patients

[Ravi Varadhan]

Look at the "optmatch" package.

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Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University

Ph. (410) 502-2619
email: rvaradhan at jhmi.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Hyman <billhyman1 at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 2:04 pm
Subject: [R] Matching patients
To: r-help at r-project.org


> May I ask a clinical question? For a trial, we have a treatment group 
> of small 
>  size, say 30 patients. We want to selectmatching control patients 
> from a bigger 
>  group (100 patients) in terms of several clinical variables, such as 
> age, tumor 
>  stage etc. This practice is to select the closest matching set of 
> control cases. 
>  I wonder if R has any routine or package that can help with this 
> problem. Thank 
>  you. Looking forward...
>  
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