Compară metode

	Metoda de Control Sintetic (SCM)	Analiza seriilor de timp întrerupte (ITS)
Domeniu	Inferență cauzală	Inferență cauzală
Familie	Regression model	Regression model
Anul apariției	2010	2002
Autorul original	Abadie, Diamond & Hainmueller	Wagner, Soumerai, Zhang & Ross-Degnan (segmented regression); Bernal, Cummins & Gasparrini (tutorial)
Tip	Counterfactual causal-inference model	Quasi-experimental segmented regression
Sursa seminală	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.	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.
Denumiri alternative	synthetic control method, SCM, synthetic counterfactual, Sentetik Kontrol Yöntemi (SCM)	ITS analysis, segmented regression of time series, Kesintili Zaman Serisi (ITS) Analizi
Înrudite	5	5
Rezumat	The Synthetic Control Method, introduced by Abadie, Diamond and Hainmueller in 2010, builds a weighted counterfactual for a single treated unit from a pool of untreated donor units. It is widely regarded as the gold standard for evaluating large policy interventions, natural experiments, and N=1 case studies where no obvious comparison unit exists.	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.