Regression discontinuity designs in epidemiology: causal inference without randomized trials
When patients receive an intervention based on whether they score below or above some threshold value on a continuously measured random variable, the intervention will be randomly assigned for patients close to the threshold. The regression discontinuity design exploits this fact to estimate causal...
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| Language: | English |
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2014-09.
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