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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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Autores principales: Bor, Jacob, Moscoe, Ellen, Mutevedzi, Portia, Newell, Marie-Louise, Bärnighausen, Till
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4162343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25061922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000138