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Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Design
Annals of Clinical Epidemiology, 2022 It is common clinical practice for physicians to refer to specific diagnostic criteria for day-to-day decision-making. In particular, whether or not to provide a particular treatment is often determined by the cutoff value of a relevant diagnostic marker.
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Using the Chow Test to Analyze Regression Discontinuities [PDF]
Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 2008 The Chow Test (Chow, 1960) is a method well known in econometrics. It was originally designed to analyze the same variables obtained in two different data sets to determine if they were similar enough to be pooled together.
Howard H. Lee
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Effect of Free Trade Area Policy on Innovation Capability in the Service Industry [PDF]
Amfiteatru EconomicChina has gradually established pilot free trade zones and implemented certain specific policies for its enterprises to deepen the economic system reform and expand the degree of market opening to the outside world.
Qi Dong , Yuriy Bilan
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Limitless Regression Discontinuity [PDF]
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2019 Conventionally, regression discontinuity analysis contrasts a univariate regression’s limits as its independent variable, R, approaches a cut point, c, from either side. Alternative methods target the average treatment effect in a small region around c, at the cost of an assumption that treatment assignment, [Formula: see text], is ignorable vis-à-vis ...
Sales, Adam C., Hansen, Ben B.
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International Journal of Integrated Care, 2016 Introduction: Increasing continuity of care has been identified as a strategy to improve patient outcomes, but previous studies of integrated care have tended to focus on pilot areas, which limit their generalisability and the ability to determine in ...
Therese Lloyd, Adam Steventon
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Do Bigger Legislatures Lead to Bigger Government? Evidence from a Brazilian Municipal Council Reform
Economía, 2023 Do bigger legislatures lead to bigger government? We exploit a Brazilian reform that allocated the number of municipal council seats based on population thresholds in a regression discontinuity design.
Rodrigo Schneider, Henrique Veras
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Regression discontinuity design with covariates [PDF]
Working Paper Series, 2007 In this paper, the regression discontinuity design (RDD) is generalized to account for differences in observed covariates X in a fully nonparametric way. It is shown that the treatment effect can be estimated at the rate for one-dimensional nonparametric regression irrespective of the dimension of X.
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Regression Discontinuity Designs in Health [PDF]
Epidemiology, 2020 Background: Regression discontinuity designs are non-randomized study designs that permit strong causal inference with relatively weak assumptions. Interest in these designs is growing but there is limited knowledge of the extent of their application in health. We aimed to conduct a comprehensive systematic review of the use of
Hilton Boon, Michele +4 more
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Impact of Firearm Surveillance on Gun Control Policy: Regression Discontinuity Analysis
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2021 BackgroundPublic mass shootings are a significant public health problem that require ongoing systematic surveillance to test and inform policies that combat gun injuries.
Post, Lori +10 more
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The Effect of Nonlocal Vehicle Restriction Policy on Air Quality in Shanghai
Atmosphere, 2018 In recent years, road space rationing policies have been increasingly applied as a traffic management solution to tackle congestion and traffic emission problems in big cities.
Junjie Li +3 more
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