Estimation with missing data: Beyond double robustness

Biometrika

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 417-430

  Han, Peisong ^a   Wang, Lu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmented inverse probability weighting; Causal inference; Empirical likelihood; Missing at random; Semiparametric efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878033951     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/ass087     Document Type: Article

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