Affinely invariant matching methods with ellipsoidal distributions

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176348671zbMath0761.62065OpenAlexW1972134466MaRDI QIDQ1193367

Donald B. Rubin, Neal Thomas

Publication date: 27 September 1992

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176348671

zbMATH Keywords

bias reductionobservational studiespropensity scoresspherically symmetric distributionconditionally affinely invariant matching methodsconditionally ellipsoidal distributionsdiscriminant matchingellipsoidal distributionslogistic regression estimatorsMahalanobis metric matchingmatched subsamplesnonrandomized studiessample inner productstransformed variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05)

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