Random Control Trials
AKA: RCT
Warnings
- Dicing RCT results up by coverates or in with a regression model instead of doing a simple T test can generate spurious results from a few high leverage outlier observations (Young 2019).
References
Young, Alwyn. 2019. “Channeling Fisher: Randomization Tests and the Statistical Insignificance of Seemingly Significant Experimental Results*.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 134 (2): 557–98. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjy029.