Generalizing from unrepresentative experiments: A stratified propensity score approach

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 195-210

  O'Muircheartaigh, Colm ^a   Hedges, Larry V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalization; Non probability samples; Propensity score stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894489958     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12037     Document Type: Article

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