Error-free milestones in error prone measurements

DOI10.1214/08-AOAS233MaRDI QIDQ985011zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dylan S. Small, Paul R. Rosenbaum

Publication date 20 July 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1233

zbMATH Keywords

instrumental variablesattenuationfull matchingquestionnaire designerrors in measurementnonbipartite matching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25) Nonparametric inference (62G99)

Abstract: A predictor variable or dose that is measured with substantial error may possess an error-free milestone, such that it is known with negligible error whether the value of the variable is to the left or right of the milestone. Such a milestone provides a basis for estimating a linear relationship between the true but unknown value of the error-free predictor and an outcome, because the milestone creates a strong and valid instrumental variable. The inferences are nonparametric and robust, and in the simplest cases, they are exact and distribution free. We also consider multiple milestones for a single predictor and milestones for several predictors whose partial slopes are estimated simultaneously. Examples are drawn from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, in which a BA degree acts as a milestone for sixteen years of education, and the binary indicator of military service acts as a milestone for years of service.

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