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Dealing with misfits in random treatment assignment

Alvaro Carril
University of Chile
Santiago, Chile
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Abstract.  In this article, I discuss the "misfits" problem, a practical issue that arises in random treatment assignment whenever observations cannot be neatly distributed among treatments. I also introduce the randtreat command, which performs random assignment of unequal treatment fractions and provides several methods to deal with misfits.
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