For objective causal inference, design trumps analysis

DOI10.1214/08-AOAS187zbMath1149.62089arXiv0811.1640MaRDI QIDQ958314

Donald B. Rubin

Publication date: 3 December 2008

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1640

zbMATH Keywords

noncompliance; marketing; causal effects; observational studies; breast cancer; instrumental variables; randomized experiments; propensity scores; Rubin causal model; average causal effect; complier average causal effect; cardiac cancer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62P99: Applications of statistics

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