Making Sense of Sensitivity¶
Cinelli, C., & Hazlett, C. (2020). Making Sense of Sensitivity: Extending Omitted Variable Bias. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 82(1), 39-67.
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Mechanisms¶
- Omitted Variable Probe
- … Its honest failure mode is that omitted-variable reasoning runs both ways: you can always conjure an unobserved factor to save any story, so an unfalsifiable "hidden variable" is as dangerous as ignoring the anomaly outright — the distortion econometricians call omitted-variable bias is a warning in both directions.
This sourceUses sensitivity analysis to quantify how strong omitted confounding would need to be to change a causal conclusion, rather than assuming hidden variables operate in only one direction.
- … Its honest failure mode is that omitted-variable reasoning runs both ways: you can always conjure an unobserved factor to save any story, so an unfalsifiable "hidden variable" is as dangerous as ignoring the anomaly outright — the distortion econometricians call omitted-variable bias is a warning in both directions.
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