Method evidence record
Placebo Tests
Placebo tests are a family of falsification checks that probe the credibility of a causal claim by re-running the analysis on a fake treatment, a false intervention date, or an outcome that should not have been affected. The approach was popularised through the synthetic control work of Abadie, Diamond and Hainmueller (2010) and the regression-discontinuity validity checks of Imbens and Lemieux (2008).
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Placebo Tests for Causal Inference Validation
Taxonomic method recordregression-modelcausal-inference
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