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Keele, Luke; Small, Dylan S.

Comparing covariate prioritization via matching to machine learning methods for causal inference using five empirical applications. (English) Zbl 07632874

Am. Stat. 75, No. 4, 355-363 (2021).

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MSC:

62-XX Statistics

Keywords:

causal inference; machine learning; matching

Software:

KBAL; sbw; BartPy; BayesTree; mipmatch; DOS
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