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Title: Design of Observational Studies ([EBook]) / by Paul R. Rosenbaum. Dewey Class: 519.5 Author: Rosenbaum, Paul R. author. Edition statement: 2nd ed. 2020. Publication: Cham : : Springer International Publishing : : Imprint: Springer,, 2020. Other name(s): SpringerLink (Online service) Physical Details: XXVII, 547 p. 34 illus. : online resource. Series: Springer Series in Statistics,0172-7397 ISBN: 9783030464059 Mode of acces to digital resource: Digital book. Cham Springer Nature 2020. - Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) or Firefox 2.0 (or higher). Available as searchable text in PDF format System details note: - Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users). Summary Note: This second edition of Design of Observational Studies is both an introduction to statistical inference in observational studies and a detailed discussion of the principles that guide the design of observational studies. An observational study is an empiric investigation of effects caused by treatments when randomized experimentation is unethical or infeasible. Observational studies are common in most fields that study the effects of treatments on people, including medicine, economics, epidemiology, education, psychology, political science and sociology. The quality and strength of evidence provided by an observational study is determined largely by its design. Design of Observational Studies is organized into five parts. Chapters 2, 3, and 5 of Part I cover concisely many of the ideas discussed in Rosenbaum's Observational Studies (also published by Springer) but in a less technical fashion. Part II discusses the practical aspects of using propensity scores and other tools to create a matched comparison that balances many covariates, and includes an updated chapter on matching in R. In Part III, the concept of design sensitivity is used to appraise the relative ability of competing designs to distinguish treatment effects from biases due to unmeasured covariates. Part IV is new to this edition; it discusses evidence factors and the computerized construction of more than one comparison group. Part V discusses planning the analysis of an observational study, with particular reference to Sir Ronald Fisher's striking advice for observational studies: "make your theories elaborate." This new edition features updated exploration of causal influence, with four new chapters, a new R package DOS2 designed as a companion for the book, and discussion of several of the latest matching packages for R. In particular, DOS2 allows readers to reproduce many analyses from Design of Observational Studies.: Contents note: Part I Beginnings -- 1 Dilemmas and Craftsmanship -- 2 Causal Inference in Randomized Experiments -- 3 Two Simple Models for Observational Studies -- 4 Competing Theories Structure Design -- 5 Opportunities, Devices, and Instruments -- 6 Transparency -- 7 Some Counterclaims Undermine Themselves -- Part II Matching -- 8 A Matched Observational Study -- 9 Basic Tools of Multivariate Matching -- 10 Various Practical Issues in Matching -- 11 Fine Balance -- 12 Matching Without Groups -- 13 Risk-Set Matching -- 14 Matching in R -- Part III Design Sensitivity -- 15 The Power of a Sensitivity Analysis and Its Limit -- 16 Heterogeneity and Causality -- 17 Uncommon but Dramatic Responses to Treatment -- 18 Anticipated and Discovered Patterns of Response -- 19 Choice of Test Statistic -- Part IV Enhanced Design -- 20 Evidence Factors -- 21 Constructing Several Comparison Groups -- Part V Planning Analysis -- 22 After Matching, Before Analysis -- 23 Planning the Analysis -- Summary: Key Elements of Design -- Solutions to Common Problems -- Symbols -- Acronyms -- Glossary of Statistical Terms -- Further Reading -- Suggested Readings for a Course -- Index. ------------------------------ *** There are no holdings for this record *** -----------------------------------------------
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