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	Μέθοδος Συνθετικού Ελέγχου για Αξιολόγηση Πολιτικής	Αντιστοίχιση Βαθμολογίας Προδιάθεσης
Πεδίο	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία	Ερευνητική Στατιστική
Οικογένεια	Regression model	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2003-2010	1983
Δημιουργός	Alberto Abadie & Javier Gardeazabal; extended by Abadie, Diamond & Hainmueller	Paul Rosenbaum and Donald Rubin
Τύπος	Causal inference / comparative case study	Method
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.	Rosenbaum, P. R., & Rubin, D. B. (1983). The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects. Biometrika, 70(1), 41–55.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Synthetic Control Method, SCM, Synthetic Control, Abadie-Diamond-Hainmueller method	PSM, propensity score weighting, covariate balance
Συναφείς	5	3
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.	Propensity score matching (PSM) is a method for reducing confounding bias in observational studies by balancing baseline characteristics between treatment groups, simulating randomization. Developed by Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983), it estimates the probability of receiving treatment given observed covariates, then matches or weights treated and control individuals with similar treatment probabilities. Widely used in medicine, epidemiology, and policy evaluation when randomized trials are infeasible or unethical, enabling estimation of treatment effects while controlling for selection bias.