Missing data imputation, matching and other applications of random recursive partitioning

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 773-789

  Iacus, Stefano M ^a   Porro, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Average treatment effect estimation; Classification; Missing data imputation; Recursive partitioning

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROXIMITY INDICATORS; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECT ESTIMATION; DATA IMPUTATION; EMPIRICAL FREQUENCY; MONOTONIC TRANSFORMATIONS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 35148857674     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.12.036     Document Type: Article

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