Aspects of Causal Inference within the Evenly Matchable Population: The Average Treatment Effect on the Evenly Matchable Units, Visually Guided Cohort Selection, and Bagged One-to-One Matching

This dissertation consists of three papers related to causal inference about the evenly matchable units in observational studies of treatment effect. The first paper begins by defining the evenly matchable units in a sample or population in which the effect of a binary treatment is of interest: a un...

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Main Author: Samuels, Lauren Ruth
Other Authors: Bryan E. Shepherd, Ph.D.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2016
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-12122016-113901/