Evaluating the effect of training on wages in the presence of noncompliance, nonemployment, and missing outcome data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 107, Issue 498, 2012, Pages 450-466

  Frumento, Paolo ^a   Mealli, Fabrizia ^b   Pacini, Barbara ^c   Rubin, Donald B ^d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct likelihood inference; Expectation maximization (EM) algorithm; Finite mixture models; Missing at random; Partially defined outcomes; Principal stratification; Rubin causal model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864378267     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2011.643719     Document Type: Article

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