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...