Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Μέθοδος Συνθετικού Ελέγχου για Αξιολόγηση Πολιτικής	Ανάλυση Διακοπτόμενης Χρονοσειράς (ITS)
Πεδίο	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία
Οικογένεια	Regression model	Regression model
Έτος προέλευσης	2003-2010	2002
Δημιουργός	Alberto Abadie & Javier Gardeazabal; extended by Abadie, Diamond & Hainmueller	Wagner, Soumerai, Zhang & Ross-Degnan (segmented regression); Bernal, Cummins & Gasparrini (tutorial)
Τύπος	Causal inference / comparative case study	Quasi-experimental segmented regression
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Abadie, A., Diamond, A., & Hainmueller, J. (2010). Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105(490), 493-505.	Bernal, J. L., Cummins, S., & Gasparrini, A. (2017). Interrupted time series regression for the evaluation of public health interventions: a tutorial. International Journal of Epidemiology, 46(1), 348-355.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Synthetic Control Method, SCM, Synthetic Control, Abadie-Diamond-Hainmueller method	ITS analysis, segmented regression of time series, Kesintili Zaman Serisi (ITS) Analizi
Συναφείς	5	5
Σύνοψη	The Synthetic Control Method (SCM) is a causal inference technique for evaluating the effect of a policy or intervention on a single treated unit — such as a region, country, or firm — by constructing a weighted combination of untreated comparison units that closely mirrors the treated unit before the intervention. Introduced by Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003) and formalized by Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2010), it provides a data-driven, transparent counterfactual for comparative case studies.	Interrupted Time Series analysis is a quasi-experimental design that estimates the effect of a single, well-dated intervention by comparing the trajectory of an outcome before and after it occurs. Formalised as segmented regression by Wagner and colleagues (2002) and popularised as a public-health evaluation tutorial by Bernal, Cummins and Gasparrini (2017), it separates the intervention's impact into a change in level and a change in slope.