Matching for balance, pairing for heterogeneity in an observational study of the effectiveness of for-profit and not-for-profit high schools in Chile

DOI10.1214/13-AOAS713zbMath1454.62510arXiv1404.3584MaRDI QIDQ2453664

José R. Zubizarreta, Paul R. Rosenbaum, Ricardo D. Paredes

Publication date: 10 June 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3584

zbMATH Keywords

integer programmingdesign sensitivitytesting twice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25)

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Uses Software

• mipmatch
• nbpMatching
• optmatch
• sensitivitymv
• finebalance

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