JOURNAL ARTICLE

BIAS REDUCTION USING MAHALANOBIS METRIC MATCHING

Donald B. Rubin

Year: 1978 Journal:   ETS Research Bulletin Series Vol: 1978 (2)   Publisher: Wiley

Abstract

SUMMARY Monte Carlo methods are used to study the ability of nearest available Mahalanobis metric matching to make the means of matching variables more similar in matched samples than in random samples.

Keywords:
Mahalanobis distance Metric (unit) Matching (statistics) Monte Carlo method Mathematics Statistics Artificial intelligence Pattern recognition (psychology) Computer science Engineering

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