Design of Observational Studies

• Main Author: Rosenbaum, Paul R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Springer Series in Statistics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Biostatistics.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Econometrics.; Social sciences.; Psychology > Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

An observational study is an empiric investigation of effects caused by treatments when randomized experimentation is unethical or infeasible. Observational studies are common in most fields that study the effects of treatments on people, including medicine, economics, epidemiology, education, psych...

Table of Contents:

• Beginnings
• Dilemmas and Craftsmanship
• Causal Inference in Randomized Experiments
• Two Simple Models for Observational Studies
• Competing Theories Structure Design
• Opportunities, Devices, and Instruments
• Transparency
• Matching
• A Matched Observational Study
• Basic Tools of Multivariate Matching
• Various Practical Issues in Matching
• Fine Balance
• Matching Without Groups
• Risk-Set Matching
• Matching in R
• Design Sensitivity
• The Power of a Sensitivity Analysis and Its Limit
• Heterogeneity and Causality
• Uncommon but Dramatic Responses to Treatment
• Anticipated Patterns of Response
• Planning Analysis
• After Matching, Before Analysis
• Planning the Analysis.