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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 26.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Appl Stat. 2013 Dec 23;7(4):2062–2080. doi: 10.1214/13-AOAS665

Table 2.

Observed correlations in bladder cancer study

Corr with propensity score
Largest individual corr
Unconditional Rad/chemo Cystectomy Rad/chemo Cystectomy
Grade
 1 0.004 −0.004 0.000 0.150 0.082
 3 0.006 −0.085 0.024 0.153 0.124
 4 −0.007 0.076 −0.013 0.183 0.136
 5 −0.006 0.049 −0.051 0.153 0.061
Sex −0.021 −0.035 −0.059 −0.405 0.373
Race
 White 0.140 0.111 0.148 −0.189 −0.235
 Black −0.075 −0.070 −0.084 0.235 0.177
 Other −0.125 −0.099 −0.125 0.167 0.381
Hispanic −0.074 −0.001 −0.071 0.264 0.202
Marital status
 Married −0.003 −0.001 0.012 0.384 0.373
 Unmarried 0.014 0.007 0.003 0.405 0.351
 Unknown −0.032 −0.017 −0.044 0.153 0.322
Age 0.134 0.115 0.061 0.199 0.162
Urban Category
 1 −0.053 −0.066 −0.043 −0.408 −0.311
 2 0.013 0.009 0.005 0.328 0.297
 3 0.048 0.067 0.045 0.490 0.359
Comorbidities
 0 −0.043 −0.044 −0.019 0.097 −0.097
 1 −0.071 −0.075 −0.051 0.128 0.066
 2 or more 0.091 0.093 0.058 0.140 0.108