Comment: Performance of double-robust estimators when “inverse probability” weights are highly variable. (English) Zbl 1246.62076
Concerns the paper of J.D.Y. Kang and J.L. Schafer, ibid. 22, No. 4, 523–539 (2007; Zbl 1246.62073).
MSC:
| 62F35 | Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) |
| 62F10 | Point estimation |
| 65C60 | Computational problems in statistics (MSC2010) |
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