An Empirical Bayes Approach to Estimating Ordinal Treatment Effects
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Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 91125 an Empirical Bayes Approach to Estimating Ordinal Treatment Effects
Ordinal variables — categorical variables with a defined order to the categories, but without equal spacing between them — are frequently used in social science applications. Although a good deal of research exists on the proper modeling of ordinal response variables, there is not a clear directive as to how to model ordinal treatment variables. The usual approaches found in the literature for ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Political Analysis
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1047-1987,1476-4989
DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpq033