Empirical likelihood-based estimation of the treatment effect in a pretest-posttest study

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 483, 2008, Pages 1270-1280

  Huang, Chiung Yu ^a   Qin, Jing ^a   Follmann, Dean A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Auxiliary information; Biased sampling; Causal inference; Observational study; Survey sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949120218     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214508000000625     Document Type: Article

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