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Interrupted Time Series

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.

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Interrupted Time Series (ITS) Analysis
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / causal-inference
  • 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. · DOI 10.1093/ije/dyw098
  • Wagner, A. K., Soumerai, S. B., Zhang, F., & Ross-Degnan, D. (2002). Segmented regression analysis of interrupted time series studies in medication use research. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 27(4), 299-309. · DOI 10.1046/j.1365-2710.2002.00430.x
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See alsoBayesian Structural Time Seriesmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyDifference-in-Differencesmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyOLS Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoPropensity Score Matchingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRegression Discontinuitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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