Correcting instrumental variables estimators for systematic measurement error

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1223-1246

  Vansteelandt, Stijn ^b   Babanezhad, Manoochehr ^b   Goetghebeur, Els ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Instrumental variables; Measurement error; Noncompliance; Prior information; Two stage least squares estimators; Weak identifiability

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349235542     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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