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Dealing with misfits in random treatment assignment

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  • Alvaro Carril

    (University of Chile)

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In this article, I discuss the “misfits” problem, a practical issue that arises in random treatment assignment whenever observations cannot be neatly distributed among treatments. I also introduce the randtreat command, which performs random assignment of unequal treatment fractions and provides several methods to deal with misfits.

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  • Alvaro Carril, 2017. "Dealing with misfits in random treatment assignment," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 17(3), pages 652-667, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:tsj:stataj:y:17:y:2017:i:3:p:652-667
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