A flexible instrumental variable approach

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 581-603

  Marra, Giampiero ^a   Radice, Rosalba ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

generalized additive model; instrumental variable; two stage estimation approach; unmeasured confounding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055223956     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X1001100607     Document Type: Article

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