How strong is strong enough? Strengthening instruments through matching and weak instrument tests

DOI10.1214/16-AOAS932MaRDI QIDQ312976zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luke Keele, Jason W. Morgan

Publication date 9 September 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1469199906

zbMATH Keywords

causal inferenceinstrumental variablesmatchingweak instruments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25)

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