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Estimating the dose–response function through a generalized linear model approach

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  • Barbara Guardabascio

    (Istat, Italian National Institute of Statistics)

  • Marco Ventura

    (Istat, Italian National Institute of Statistics)

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In this article, we revise the estimation of the dose–response function described in Hirano and Imbens (2004, Applied Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference from Incomplete-Data Perspectives, 73–84) by proposing a flexible way to estimate the generalized propensity score when the treatment variable is not necessarily normally distributed. We also provide a set of programs that accomplish this task. To do this, in the existing doseresponse program (Bia and Mattei, 2008, Stata Journal 8: 354–373), we substitute the maximum likelihood estimator in the first step of the computation with the more flexible generalized linear model. Copyright 2014 by StataCorp LP.

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  • Barbara Guardabascio & Marco Ventura, 2014. "Estimating the dose–response function through a generalized linear model approach," Stata Journal, StataCorp LLC, vol. 14(1), pages 141-158, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:tsj:stataj:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:141-158
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