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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 record · regression-model / causal-inference
  • 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. · DOI 10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08746
  • Imbens, G. W., & Lemieux, T. (2008). Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice. Journal of Econometrics, 142(2), 615-635. · DOI 10.1016/j.jeconom.2007.05.001
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Same method familyCausal Discovery Algorithmsmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyDAG Causal Identificationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyDifference-in-Discontinuitiesmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRegression Discontinuitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confoundingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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