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NCJ Number:	185456

Title:	Investigating Treatment Effects in a Domestic Violence Experiment with Partially Missing Outcome Data

Journal:	Journal of Quantitative Criminology Volume:16 Issue:3 Dated:September 2000 Pages:283-314

Author(s):	Robert Brame

Date Published:	September 2000

Page Count:	32

Publisher:	http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0748-4518

Type:	Program Description (Model)

Format:	Article

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	This article considers the problem of estimating the magnitude of a treatment effect in a randomized experiment where the outcome is missing for some cases.

Abstract:	The primary concern in such situations is that distribution of the outcome variable may vary in important ways between individuals whose outcomes are observed and individuals whose outcomes are missing. Since the data cannot be used to resolve this concern, it is necessary to take the uncertainty created by the missing data into account when developing inferences about the magnitude of the treatment effect. This article considers a modeling framework that accomplishes that objective. It then applies the framework to a study of the effectiveness of different types of police responses to spouse assault incidents in Charlotte, NC. The major premise underlying this work is that the investigation of treatment effects in experiments with partially missing outcome data can benefit from the adoption of middle-ground methods for confronting the uncertainty created by the missing data. Notes, tables, figures, appendix, references

Main Term(s):	Criminology

Index Term(s):	Abusing spouses; Data analysis; Domestic assault; Models; North Carolina; Police differential response; Police effectiveness; Research methods; Treatment effectiveness



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