while his successor Porphyry (234–ca. 305) incorporated it in his philosophy. Unlike Plotinus, Porphyry seems to have felt that knowledge of the influence of the heavenly bodies on the individual could help him to reach the divine mind. ...
Though it may be tempting to cast estimating propensity scores as a prediction problem, this may lead to unintended consequences. The original philosophy of propensity scores from Rosenbaum and Rubin is not to fit the first-stage as well as possible; rather, it is to find a balancing score su...
The original philosophy of propensity scores from Rosenbaum and Rubin is not to fit the first-stage as well as possible; rather, it is to find a balancing score sufficient to achieve ignorability [45–48]. Furthermore, measures of model performance like the C-statistic do not provide useful ...