Observation and experiment : an introduction to causal inference /
We hear that a glass of red wine prolongs life, that alcohol is a carcinogen, that pregnant women should drink not a drop of alcohol. Major medical journals first claimed that hormone replacement therapy reduces the risk of heart disease, then reversed themselves and said it increases the risk of he...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Randomized experiments: A randomized trial
- Structure
- Causal inference in randomized experiments
- Irrationality and polio
- Part II. Observational studies: Between observational studies and experiments
- Natural experiments
- Elaborate theories
- Quasi-experimental devices
- Sensitivity to bias
- Design sensitivity
- Matching techniques
- Biases from general dispositions
- Instruments
- Conclusion.