Likelihood analysis of the binary instrumental variable model

Biometrika

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 987-994

  Ramsahai, R R ^a   Lauritzen, S L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Instrumental inequality; Instrumental variable; Likelihood; Polytope

Indexed keywords

EID: 82255183920     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asr040     Document Type: Article

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