Semiparametric modeling and estimation of instrumental variable models

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-114

  Chib, Siddhartha ^a   Greenberg, Edward ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Average treatment effect; Bayes factor; Bayesian inference; Function estimation; Marginal likelihood; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Metropolis Hastings algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147196768     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186007X180723     Document Type: Article

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