Estimating density ratio of marginals to joint: Applications to causal inference
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Keywords
density ratio; causal inference; nonparametric estimation;All these keywords.
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- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
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