Journal of Educational Psychology
Estimating causal effects of treatments in randomized and nonrandomized studies.
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Abstract
Presents a discussion of matching, randomization, random sampling, and other methods of controlling extraneous variation. The objective was to specify the benefits of randomization in estimating causal effects of treatments. It is concluded that randomization should be employed whenever possible but that the use of carefully controlled nonrandomized data to estimate causal effects is a reasonable and necessary procedure in many cases.
DOI: 10.1037/h0037350 · Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)