Bayesian inference for causal effects in randomized experiments with noncompliance

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 305-327

  Imbens, Guido W ^a   Rubin, Donald B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliers; Data augmentation; EM algorithm; Exclusion restriction; Gibbs sampler; Instrumental variables; Intention to treat analysis; Likelihood based inference; Maximum likelihood estimation; Rubin causal model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031535102     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1034276631     Document Type: Article

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