Marginal mean weighting through stratification: A generalized method for evaluating multivalued and multiple treatments with nonexperimental data

Psychological Methods

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-60

  Hong, Guanglei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Causal inference; Potential outcomes; Propensity score

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROPENSITY SCORE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAUSALITY; CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROPENSITY SCORE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84863834159     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024918     Document Type: Article

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