Rerandomization to improve covariate balance in experiments

DOI10.1214/12-AOS1008zbMath1274.62509arXiv1207.5625MaRDI QIDQ447869

Kari Lock Morgan, Donald B. Rubin

Publication date: 29 August 2012

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5625

zbMATH Keywords

randomizationclinical trialcausal effectHotelling's \(T^{2}\)experimental designMahalanobis distancetreatment allocation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Design of statistical experiments (62K99)

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