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. 2019 Dec 17;189(6):613–622. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwz268

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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2019. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.

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Results of plasmode analysis, noninteraction scenarios—average proportional decrease in Mahalanobis balance. A) Very small covariate set scenarios. B) Small covariate set scenarios. C) Standard covariate set scenarios. D) Large covariate set scenarios. Blue: coarsened exact matching trends; green: propensity score matching trends; purple: Mahalanobis distance matching trends; and red: fine-stratification-by-propensity-score trends. IEP, index exposure prevalence; MB, Mahalanobis balance.