The “story time” is to lull us in with a randomized controlled experiment and as we fall asleep, feed us less reliable conclusions that come from an embedded observational study.

R-bloggers 2021-02-04

Summary:

Kaiser Fung explains. This comes up a lot, and his formulation in the above title is a good way of putting it. He also has this discussion of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine trial results which makes me want to just do a damn Bayesian analysis of it already. I’ll have to find someone with the right […]

Link:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/02/04/the-story-time-is-to-lull-us-in-with-a-randomized-controlled-experiment-and-as-we-fall-asleep-feed-us-less-reliable-conclusions-that-come-from-an-embedded-observational-study/

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Statistics and Visualization » Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Tags:

causal

Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

02/04/2021, 17:43

Date published:

02/04/2021, 17:22