A simple and successful shrinkage method for weighting estimators of treatment effects

Pohlmeier, Winfried; Seiberlich, Ruben; Uysal, Selver Derya

doi:10.1016/j.csda.2014.09.015

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	A simple and successful shrinkage method for weighting estimators of treatment effects
Authors:	Pohlmeier, Winfried Seiberlich, Ruben Uysal, Selver Derya
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1016/j.csda.2014.09.015
Published in:	Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume(Issue):	100
Page(s):	512
Pages to:	525
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0167-9473
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	510: Mathematics
Abstract:	A simple shrinkage method is proposed to improve the performance of weighting estimators of the average treatment effect. As the weights in these estimators can become arbitrarily large for the propensity scores close to the boundaries, three different variants of a shrinkage method for the propensity scores are analyzed. The results of a comprehensive Monte Carlo study demonstrate that this simple method substantially reduces the mean squared error of the estimators in finite samples, and is superior to several popular trimming approaches over a wide range of settings
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/18248
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	School of Management and Law
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Management and Law

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Pohlmeier, W., Seiberlich, R., & Uysal, S. D. (2016). A simple and successful shrinkage method for weighting estimators of treatment effects. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 100, 512–525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2014.09.015

Pohlmeier, W., Seiberlich, R. and Uysal, S.D. (2016) ‘A simple and successful shrinkage method for weighting estimators of treatment effects’, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 100, pp. 512–525. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2014.09.015.

W. Pohlmeier, R. Seiberlich, and S. D. Uysal, “A simple and successful shrinkage method for weighting estimators of treatment effects,” Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, vol. 100, pp. 512–525, 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2014.09.015.

POHLMEIER, Winfried, Ruben SEIBERLICH und Selver Derya UYSAL, 2016. A simple and successful shrinkage method for weighting estimators of treatment effects. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 2016. Bd. 100, S. 512–525. DOI 10.1016/j.csda.2014.09.015

Pohlmeier, Winfried, Ruben Seiberlich, and Selver Derya Uysal. 2016. “A Simple and Successful Shrinkage Method for Weighting Estimators of Treatment Effects.” Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 100: 512–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2014.09.015.

Pohlmeier, Winfried, et al. “A Simple and Successful Shrinkage Method for Weighting Estimators of Treatment Effects.” Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, vol. 100, 2016, pp. 512–25, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2014.09.015.