Reflections Stimulated by the Comments of Shadish (2010) and West and Thoemmes (2010)

Psychological Methods

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-46

  Rubin, Donald B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

assignment mechanism; Campbell's causal contributions; potential outcomes; Rubin causal model; stable unit treatment value assumption

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY;

CAUSALITY; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 77949629364     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018537     Document Type: Article

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