Extended sensitivity analysis for heterogeneous unmeasured confounding with an application to sibling studies of returns to education

DOI10.1214/18-AOAS1215zbMath1423.62040arXiv1711.05570MaRDI QIDQ2318655

Colin B. Fogarty, Raiden B. Hasegawa

Publication date: 15 August 2019

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.05570

zbMATH Keywords

quadratic programmingnuisance parametersobservational studiescausal inferencehidden biassuperpopulation inference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32) Quadratic programming (90C20)

Related Items (5)

Evidence factors from multiple, possibly invalid, instrumental variables ⋮ Sharpening the Rosenbaum Sensitivity Bounds to Address Concerns About Interactions Between Observed and Unobserved Covariates ⋮ Studentized Sensitivity Analysis for the Sample Average Treatment Effect in Paired Observational Studies ⋮ Assessment of the extent of corroboration of an elaborate theory of a causal hypothesis using partial conjunctions of evidence factors ⋮ Extended sensitivity analysis for heterogeneous unmeasured confounding with an application to sibling studies of returns to education

Uses Software

• R
• DOS

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