Replication and Evidence Factors in Observational Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367751708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 276 str.

Paul Rosenbaum

Opis

“Concepts and Applications”: readable by most people who use statistical methods for empirical research on human beings - epidemiologists, medical researchers, social scientists.“Theory”: readable to people with a PhD in statistics. The goal is to make the subject accessible without specialized knowledge, something not possible in articles.

Spis treści

I Background: Aspects of Causal Inference. 1. Causal Inference in Randomized Experiments. 2. Causal Inference in Observational Studies. 3. Replication and its Limits. II Evidence Factors in Practice. 4. Examples of Studies with Evidence Factors. 5. Simple Analyses with Evidence Factors. 6. Planned Analyses with Evidence Factors. 7. Dependent P-Values. 8. Treatment Assignments as Permutations. 9. Sets of Treatment Assignments. 10. Probability Distributions for Treatment Assignments. 11. Factors. 12.*Groups of Permutation Matrices. IV Aspects of Design. 13. Constructing Matched Samples with Evidence Factors. 14. Design Elements for Evidence Factors.