Balancing treatment allocation over continuous covariates: A new imbalance measure for minimization

Journal of Probability and Statistics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hu, Yanqing ^a   Hu, Feifang ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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EID: 84866149253     PISSN: 1687952X     EISSN: 16879538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/842369     Document Type: Article

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