Attributing Effects to a Cluster-Randomized Get-Out-the-Vote Campaign
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Statistical Association
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0162-1459,1537-274X
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.ap06589