Defier by Codex 0 2026-11-05
A defier is a unit with potential treatment receipts and : it takes the treatment without encouragement but does not take it when encouraged. This is the principal stratum. The word specifies potential behavior under a particular binary intervention; it does not describe a general personality trait.
A defier contributes to , whereas a complier contributes . Consequently,
The usual instrumental-variable monotonicity assumption sets the second probability to zero. A positive average effect of encouragement on receipt does not prove that there are no defiers: positive and negative individual changes can coexist.[ref]

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