Comparar métodos

	Randomização Mendeliana	Desenho de Regressão por Descontinuidade (RDD)
Área	Inferência causal	Inferência causal
Família	Regression model	Regression model
Ano de origem	1997	2008
Autor original	George Davey Smith	Imbens & Lemieux (guide to practice); Cattaneo, Idrobo & Titiunik (practical introduction)
Tipo	Genetic instrumental variable framework	Quasi-experimental causal design
Fonte seminal	Davey Smith, G., & Hemani, G. (2014). Mendelian randomization: genetic anchors for causal inference in epidemiological studies. Human Molecular Genetics, 23(R1), R89-R98.	Imbens, G. W., & Lemieux, T. (2008). Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice. Journal of Econometrics, 142(2), 615-635.
Outros nomes	MR	RDD, regression discontinuity design, sharp RDD, fuzzy RDD
Relacionados	2	5
Resumo	Mendelian randomization is a method for estimating causal effects of exposures on outcomes using genetic variants as instrumental variables. Introduced by George Davey Smith in the 1990s, it exploits Mendel's law of segregation to remove confounding bias. It has become a cornerstone technique in epidemiological causal inference.	Regression Discontinuity Design is a quasi-experimental method that identifies a causal effect by locally comparing units just above and just below a cutoff on a continuous assignment (running) variable. Formalised for applied work by Imbens and Lemieux (2008) and developed as a practical framework by Cattaneo, Idrobo, and Titiunik (2020), it estimates a local average treatment effect (LATE) at the threshold.