Multivariate Matching Methods That Are Monotonic Imbalance Bounding
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- 1 March 2011
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Vol. 106 (493) , 345-361
- https://doi.org/10.1198/jasa.2011.tm09599
Abstract
We introduce a new “Monotonic Imbalance Bounding” (MIB) class of matching methods for causal inference with a surprisingly large number of attractive statistical properties. MIB generalizes and ext...Keywords
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