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Attributing Effects to a Get-Out-The-Vote Campaign Using Full Matching and Randomization Inference Jake Bowers and Ben Hansen Political Science and Statistics jwbowers@umich.edu and bbh@umich.edu University of Michigan April 4 2005 Abstract Statistical analysis requires a probability model: commonly a model for the dependence of outcomes Y on confounders X and a potentially causal variable Z . When the goal of the analysis is to infer Z 's effects on Y this requirement introduces an element of circularity: in order
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