Short-term costs of smoking during pregnancy: Geometric multidimensional approach

Smoking during pregnancy imposes a considerable economic burden on society. This phenomenon has been studied fairly extensively in the United States, but little is known about its costs within the European Union. This paper aims to evaluate the neonatal costs of a mother who smokes during pregnancy compared to the alternative of her not smoking. Geometric multidimensional approach that is used for analysis involves the use of conditional multiple correspondence analysis as a tool for investigating the dependence relationship between covariates and the assignment-to-treatment indicator variable within a strategy whose final aim is to find balanced groups.