Causal inference for time-varying instructional treatments

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-362

  Hong, Guanglei ^a   Raudenbush, Stephen W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse probability of treatment weighting; Potential outcomes; Pseudolikelihood estimation; Stable unit treatment value assumption; Value added model

Indexed keywords

EID: 51849121101     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998607307355     Document Type: Article

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