Causal inference without balance checking: Coarsened exact matching

Political Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-24

  Iacus, Stefano M ^a   King, Gary ^b   Porro, Giuseppe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

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EID: 84856187945     PISSN: 10471987     EISSN: 14764989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpr013     Document Type: Article

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