Removable selection bias in quasi-experiments

American Statistician

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-107

  Salzberg, Alan J ^a  

^a KPMG LLP   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonrandomized experiments; Observational studies; Quasi experiments; Repeated measures designs; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033472597     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1999.10474440     Document Type: Article

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