Three approaches to causal inference in regression discontinuity designs

Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages e28-e30

  Bor, Jacob ^a   Moscoe, Ellen ^b   Bärnighausen, Till ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL VALIDITY; HUMAN; LETTER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DESIGN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CAUSALITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84923974845     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000256     Document Type: Letter

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