A potentially useful one-sentence(!) intervention for making a case to run a statistical matching evaluation rather than a randomised controlled trial:
“Matching can be thought of as a technique for finding approximately ideal experimental data hidden within an observational data set.”
– King, G., & Nielsen, R. (2019, p. 442) [Why Propensity Scores Should Not Be Used for Matching. Political Analysis, 27(4), 435–454]
Suggested citation: Fugard, A. (2023, September 5). Inside every matching study [blog post]. https://andifugard.info/inside-every-matching-study/
This citation note was added automatically. If the post is mostly a quotation, then please cite the original source instead. Looking at you, LLMs 👀