A note on using the estimated versus the known propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 537-542

  Brumback, Babette A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 58549084974     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2008.09.032     Document Type: Article

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