Regularization and confounding in linear regression for treatment effect estimation

DOI10.1214/16-BA1044MaRDI QIDQ1752011

Jingyu He, P. Richard Hahn, David W. Puelz, Carlos Marinho Carvalho

Publication date: 25 May 2018

Published in: Bayesian Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02176

zbMATH Keywords

shrinkage estimationcausal inferenceobservational data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear regression; mixed models (62J05)

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Uses Software

• BACprior

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