Matching: The Search for Control
by
 
Humphrey, Colman, author.

Title
Matching: The Search for Control

Author
Humphrey, Colman, author.

ISBN
9780438037335

Personal Author
Humphrey, Colman, author.

Physical Description
1 electronic resource (206 pages)

General Note
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: B.
 
Advisors: Shane Jensen; Dylan Small Committee members: John MacDonald; Rachel Thurston.

Abstract
Matching allows us to estimate the effect of a chosen variable, providing highly interpretable inference without parametric assumptions. When matching, finding good controls is where nearly all the difficulty lies. We develop a theoretical framework and a methodology to generate a set of matches, evaluate them and select a best match given the input variables. We apply this method to a problem of interest, urban data in Philadelphia. In this setting, we also outline our full data collection pipeline in order to encourage replication. In a separate time series setting, we propose a latent model in order to generate probabilities at each time point; these form the basis of an interrupted time series match.

Local Note
School code: 0175

Subject Term
Statistics.
 
Urban planning.
 
Mathematics.

Added Corporate Author
University of Pennsylvania. Statistics.

Electronic Access
http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:10809505


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