A note on improving the efficiency of inverse probability weighted estimator using the augmentation term

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2221-2228

  Han, Peisong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmented inverse probability weighting (AIPW); Estimating equations; Missing at random; Semiparametric efficient; Surrogate outcome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865405383     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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