On regression adjustments in experiments with several treatments

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 176-196

  Freedman, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced designs; Bias; Estimation; Experiments; Intention to treat; Models; Multiple regression; Randomization

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849099331     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AOAS143     Document Type: Article

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