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Zamarro, Gema; Anderson, Kaitlin; Steele, Jennifer; Miller, Trey – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
The purpose of this study is to study the performance of different methods (inverse probability weighting and estimation of informative bounds) to control for differential attrition by comparing the results of different methods using two datasets: an original dataset from Portland Public Schools (PPS) subject to high rates of differential…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Student Attrition, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Lockwood, J. R.; Setodji, Claude M. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
Inverse probability weighting (IPW) estimates are widely used in applications where data are missing due to nonresponse or censoring or in observational studies of causal effects where the counterfactuals cannot be observed. This extensive literature has shown the estimators to be consistent and asymptotically normal under very general conditions,…
Descriptors: Computation, Probability, Weighted Scores, Error of Measurement