The presence of an error term does not preclude causal inference in regression: A comment on Krause (2012)

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 243-250

  McIntosh, Cameron N ^a  

^a PUBLIC SAFETY CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endogeneity; Instrumental variable; Omitted variable bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891630851     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-012-9763-7     Document Type: Article

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