Estimation of average treatment effects based on parametric propensity score model

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 806-816

  Yao, Lili ^a,c   Sun, Zhihua ^a,d   Wang, Qihua ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Average treatment effects; Inverse probability weighted; MLE; Propensity score; Regression and imputation method

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350710007     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2009.09.009     Document Type: Article

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