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Myoung-jae Lee; Goeun Lee; Jin-young Choi – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
A linear model is often used to find the effect of a binary treatment D on a noncontinuous outcome Y with covariates X. Particularly, a binary Y gives the popular "linear probability model (LPM)," but the linear model is untenable if X contains a continuous regressor. This raises the question: what kind of treatment effect does the…
Descriptors: Probability, Least Squares Statistics, Regression (Statistics), Causal Models
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Nicole Bohme Carnegie; Masataka Harada; Jennifer L. Hill – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
A major obstacle to developing evidenced-based policy is the difficulty of implementing randomized experiments to answer all causal questions of interest. When using a nonexperimental study, it is critical to assess how much the results could be affected by unmeasured confounding. We present a set of graphical and numeric tools to explore the…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Simulation, Evidence Based Practice, Barriers