Dealing with limited overlap in estimation of average treatment effects

DOI10.1093/biomet/asn055zbMath1163.62083OpenAlexW2116943185WikidataQ108880104 ScholiaQ108880104MaRDI QIDQ3613163

Guido W. Imbens, V. Joseph Hotz, Oscar A. Mitnik, Richard K. Crump

Publication date: 11 March 2009

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3007645

zbMATH Keywords

overlapcausalitypropensity scoreaverage treatment effectunconfoundednesstreatment effect heterogeneityignorable treatment assignmentheart cathererization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02)

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