Affinely invariant matching methods with ellipsoidal distributions

DOI10.1214/aos/1176348671zbMath0761.62065MaRDI QIDQ1193367

Donald B. Rubin, Neal Thomas

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176348671

zbMATH Keywords

bias reduction; observational studies; propensity scores; spherically symmetric distribution; conditionally affinely invariant matching methods; conditionally ellipsoidal distributions; discriminant matching; ellipsoidal distributions; logistic regression estimators; Mahalanobis metric matching; matched subsamples; nonrandomized studies; sample inner products; transformed variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62H05: Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas

62D05: Sampling theory, sample surveys

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