Detecting multiple confounders

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1073-1081

  Wang, Xueli ^a   Geng, Zhi ^b   Chen, Hua ^b   Xie, Xianchao ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Confounder; Confounding

Indexed keywords

EID: 56949086280     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.06.013     Document Type: Article

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