• Title of article

    Minimax-regret treatment choice with missing outcome data

  • Author/Authors

    Manski، نويسنده , , Charles F.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    دوفصلنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    11
  • From page
    105
  • To page
    115
  • Abstract
    I use the minimax-regret criterion to study choice between two treatments when some outcomes in the study population are unobservable and the distribution of missing data is unknown. I first assume that observable features of the study population are known and derive the treatment rule that minimizes maximum regret over all possible distributions of missing data. When no treatment is dominant, this rule allocates positive fractions of persons to both treatments. I then assume that the data are a random sample of the study population and show that in some instances, treatment rules that estimate certain point-identified population means by sample averages are finite-sample minimax regret.
  • Keywords
    Partial identification , Statistical decision theory , Social choice
  • Journal title
    Journal of Econometrics
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Journal of Econometrics
  • Record number

    1559182