Doubly robust estimation of the local average treatment effect curve

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 373-396

  Ogburn, Elizabeth L ^a   Rotnitzky, Andrea ^b,c   Robins, James M ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA   (Argentina)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumental variables; Local average treatment effect; Local efficiency; Multiplicative effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961290270     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssb.12078     Document Type: Article

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