Asymptotics for statistical treatment rules

Econometrica

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1683-1701

  Hirano, Keisuke ^a   Porter, Jack R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes rules; Minmax; Minmax regret; Semiparametric models; Statistical decision theory; Treatment assignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349845924     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA6630     Document Type: Article

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