Multilevel propensity score methods for estimating causal effects: A latent class modeling strategy

Quantitative Psychology Research: The 79th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Madison, Wisconsin, 2014

Volumn 140, Issue , 2015, Pages 293-306

  Kim, Jee Seon ^a   Steiner, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Finite mixture models; Hierarchical linear models; Latent class analysis; Multilevel models; Propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955368401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19977-1_21     Document Type: Chapter

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