Stability in the absence of treatment

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 453, 2001, Pages 210-219

  Rosenbaum, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aligned rank test; Hodges Lehmann estimate; Observational studies; Paired data; Quasi experiment; Rank test; Sensitivity analysis; Separability

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842815957     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501750333072     Document Type: Article

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