A special feature of Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC 2015 is that the conference, including the workshop, is open to all statistics graduate students
from UMBC and local universites free of charge; however, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED! The deadline to register is Friday,
April 3, 2015. // REGISTER NOW
For more information, contact any member of the organizing committee:
Bimal Sinha
Conference Chair
443.538.3012
Kofi Adragni
410.455.2406
Yvonne Huang
410.455.2422
Yaakov Malinovsky
410.455.2968
Thomas Mathew
410.455.2418
Nagaraj Neerchal
410.455.2437
DoHwan Park
410.455.2408
Junyong Park
410.455.2407
Anindya Roy
410.455.2435
Elizabeth Stanwyck
410.455.5731
Participant Information
Rowena Bastero
Poster: Alternative Approach to Average Treatment Effect Estimation
A matching procedure with a balancing property is proposed and the average treatment effect is estimated using a technique that infuses "swapping" of models based on classical regression and meta-analyses procedures. The "swapping" procedure allows for the imputation of the missing potential outcome Y(1) and Y(0) for units in the control and treatment groups, respectively while meta analysis provides a means of combining the effect sizes calculated from each matched group. Data analyses illustrate comparability of estimates derived from this method and those based on propensity score analysis via strati cation matching. The proposed procedure ensures perfect balance within matched groups with respect to categorical variables and addresses issues of homogeneous effect sizes and inclusion of covariate information in the estimation of the average treatment effect.
