Dealing with misfits in random treatment assignment

Alvaro Carril ()

Stata Journal, 2017, vol. 17, issue 3, 652-667

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: randtreat; random assignment; misfits; randomized control trial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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