Baseline, placebo, and treatment: Efficient estimation for three-group experiments

Political Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 297-315

  Gerber, Alan S ^a   Green, Donald P ^a   Kaplan, Edward H ^b   Kern, Holger L ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 77957261752     PISSN: 10471987     EISSN: 14764989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpq008     Document Type: Article

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