Comment: Performance of Double-Robust Estimators When “Inverse Probability” Weights Are Highly Variable
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Comment: Performance of Double-Robust Estimators When ``Inverse Probability'' Weights Are Highly Variable
We thank the editor Ed George for the opportunity to discuss the paper by Kang and Schaeffer. The authors’ paper provides a review of doublerobust (equivalently, double-protected) estimators of (i) the mean μ = E(Y ) of a response Y when Y is missing at random (MAR) (but not completely at random) and of (ii) the average treatment effect in an observational study under the assumption of strong i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Statistical Science
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0883-4237
DOI: 10.1214/07-sts227d