Covsel: An R package for covariate selection when estimating average causal effects

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 68, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Häggström, Jenny ^a   Persson, Emma ^a   Waernbaum, Ingeborg ^a   De Luna, Xavier ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Dimension reduction; Dr; Np; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949921188     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v068.i01     Document Type: Article

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