Statistical analysis of randomized experiments with non-ignorable missing binary outcomes: An application to a voting experiment

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-104

  Imai, Kosuke ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Average treatment effect; Causal inference; Instrumental variables; Intention to ; Non compliance; Sensitivity analysis; Treat effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149161424     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00637.x     Document Type: Article

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