Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences

DOI10.1017/CBO9781139025751zbMath1355.62002OpenAlexW3150893739MaRDI QIDQ5262509

Guido W. Imbens, Donald B. Rubin

Publication date: 15 July 2015

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139025751

zbMATH Keywords

Bernoulli trialsstatisticsrandomized experimentscausal inferencesocial sciencesregression methodsassignment mechanismmodel based inferencebiomedical sciencesFisher's exact \(p\)-valuesNeyman's repeated sampling approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistics (62-01)

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