S7E16 Jumping Into Regression Discontinuity Designs

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Feb 24, 202642:01Science & Medicine

In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick discuss the decades-old method of the regression discontinuity design and describe how, when properly applied, this approach can strengthen our causal inferences when using q...

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