Empirical-likelihood-based inference in missing response problems and its application in observational studies

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 101-122

  Qin, Jing ^a   Zhang, Biao ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auxiliary information; Average treatment effect; Biased sampling; Causal inference; Empirical likelihood; Missing data; Observational studies; Propensity score; Survey sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846247438     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2007.00579.x     Document Type: Article

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