Marginal mean weighting through stratification: Adjustment for selection bias in multilevel data

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 499-531

  Hong, Guanglei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

concurrent treatments; inverse probability of treatment weighting; multivalued treatments; potential outcomes; propensity score stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959506759     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998609359785     Document Type: Article

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