Methoden vergelijken

	Synthetische Controle Methode (SCM)	Propensity Score Matching
Vakgebied	Causale inferentie	Onderzoeksstatistiek
Familie	Regression model	Process / pipeline
Jaar van ontstaan	2003–2010	1983
Grondlegger	Alberto Abadie & Javier Gardeazabal (2003); Abadie, Diamond & Hainmueller (2010)	Paul Rosenbaum and Donald Rubin
Type	Quasi-experimental causal inference	Method
Oorspronkelijke bron	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.
Aliassen	SCM, synthetic control, synth estimator, Abadie-Diamond-Hainmueller method	PSM, propensity score weighting, covariate balance
Verwant	4	3
Samenvatting	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.	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.