A martingale representation for matching estimators

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 107, Issue 498, 2012, Pages 833-843

  Abadie, Alberto ^a   Imbens, Guido W ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hot deck imputation; Martingales; Overt bias; Treatment effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864384306     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2012.682537     Document Type: Article

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