Replicating effects and biases

American Statistician

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 223-227

  Rosenbaum, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assignment mechanism; Hidden bias; Observational study; Treatment envelope

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035590268     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313001317098220     Document Type: Article

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