방법 비교

	패널 데이터 합성 통제법	합성 통제 방법 (SCM)
분야	인과추론	인과추론
계열	Regression model	Regression model
기원 연도	2010	2003–2010
창시자	Alberto Abadie, Alexis Diamond & Jens Hainmueller	Alberto Abadie & Javier Gardeazabal (2003); Abadie, Diamond & Hainmueller (2010)
유형	Causal inference / panel data	Quasi-experimental causal inference
원전	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.	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.
별칭	SCM panel, panel synthetic control, synthetic control estimator, comparative case study	SCM, synthetic control, synth estimator, Abadie-Diamond-Hainmueller method
관련	5	4
요약	The panel data synthetic control method estimates the causal effect of an intervention on a single treated unit by constructing a data-driven weighted combination of untreated units — a synthetic control — that best reproduces the treated unit's pre-treatment outcome trajectory. The post-treatment gap between the treated unit and its synthetic counterpart is the estimated treatment effect.	The Synthetic Control Method estimates the causal effect of a treatment or policy on a single treated unit by constructing a weighted combination of untreated units — the synthetic control — that closely resembles the treated unit before the intervention. The gap between the treated unit and its synthetic counterpart after the intervention is the estimated treatment effect.