Causal Inference Using Mixture Models
A Word of Caution
ResearchPosted on rand.org Aug 28, 2014Published In: Medical Care, v. 52, no. 9, Commentary, Sep. 2014, p. 770-772
Mixture models are useful for monitoring the behavior of data and for offering comparisons to supplemental data, especially in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity, but one should be highly cautious when drawing causal inferences as to which population each component of the fitted mixture model represents.
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- Copyright: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Availability: Non-RAND
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 3
- Document Number: EP-66146
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