Building a Stronger Instrument in an Observational Study of Perinatal Care for Premature Infants
Building a Stronger Instrument in an Observational Study of Perinatal Care for Premature Infants
Abstract An instrument is a random nudge toward acceptance of a treatment that affects outcomes only to the extent that it affects acceptance of the treatment. Nonetheless, in settings in which treatment assignment is mostly deliberate and not random, there may exist some essentially random nudges to accept treatment, so …