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Recently, interest has grown in the use of proxy variables of unobserved confounding for inferring the causal effect in the presence of unmeasured confounders from observational data. One difficulty inhibiting the practical use is finding…
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Modeling fractional data in various real life scenarios is a challenging task. This paper consider situations where fractional data is observed on the interval [0,1]. The unit-Lindley distribution has been discussed in the literature where…
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