The essential role of pair matching in cluster-randomized experiments, with application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance evaluation

DOI10.1214/08-STS274zbMath1327.62061arXiv0910.3752MaRDI QIDQ900473

Kosuke Imai, Gary King, Clayton Nall

Publication date: 22 December 2015

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3752

zbMATH Keywords

noncompliance; power; causal inference; health policy; field experiments; community intervention trials; group-randomized trials; matched-pair design; place-randomized trials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62D05: Sampling theory, sample surveys

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