Comment: Performance of double-robust estimators when "Inverse Probability" weights are highly variable

Statistical Science

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 544-559

  Robins, James ^a   Sued, Mariela ^b   Lei Gomez, Quanhong ^a   Rotnitzky, Andrea ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA   (Argentina)

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EID: 46249085099     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-STS227D     Document Type: Note

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