The incentives are all wrong (causal inference edition)
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2019-11-05
Summary:
I was talking with some people the other day about bad regression discontinuity analyses (see this paper for some statistical background on the problems with these inferences), examples where the fitted model just makes no sense. The people talking with me asked the question: OK, we agree that the published analysis was no good. What […]