On equivalencies between design-based and regression-based variance estimators for randomized experiments

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 365-370

  Samii, Cyrus ^a   Aronow, Peter M ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Potential outcomes; Randomized experiments; Robust variance estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 82055163154     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2011.10.024     Document Type: Article

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