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Lohr, Sharon L.; Zhu, Xiaoshu – Sociological Methods & Research, 2017
Many randomized experiments in the social sciences allocate subjects to treatment arms at the time the subjects enroll. Desirable features of the mechanism used to assign subjects to treatment arms are often (1) equal numbers of subjects in intervention and control arms, (2) balanced allocation for population subgroups and across covariates, (3)…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Randomized Controlled Trials, Research Design, Computer Software
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Marshall, Iain J.; Noel-Storr, Anna; Kuiper, Joël; Thomas, James; Wallace, Byron C. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2018
Machine learning (ML) algorithms have proven highly accurate for identifying Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) but are not used much in practice, in part because the best way to make use of the technology in a typical workflow is unclear. In this work, we evaluate ML models for RCT classification (support vector machines, convolutional neural…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Accuracy, Computer Software, Classification