Principal stratification in the Twilight Zone: Weakly separated components in finite mixture models

Principal stratification in the Twilight Zone: Weakly separated components in finite mixture models

Neyman Seminar
Apr 27, 2016, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Avi Feller, UC Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy
Principal stratification is a widely used framework for addressing post-randomization complications in a principled way. After using principal stratification to define causal effects of interest, researchers are increasingly turning to finite mixture models to estimate these quantities. Unfortunately, standard estimators of the mixture parameters, like the MLE, are known to exhibit pathological...