Overlap in observational studies with high-dimensional covariates

DOI10.1016/j.jeconom.2019.10.014zbMath1471.62501arXiv1711.02582OpenAlexW3081149207MaRDI QIDQ2658764

Peng Ding, Avi Feller, Lihua Lei, Jasjeet Sekhon, Alexander D'Amour

Publication date: 24 March 2021

Published in: Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02582

zbMATH Keywords

overlapinformation theorycurse of dimensionalitycausal inference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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