Using Big Data to Emulate a Target Trial When a Randomized Trial Is Not Available¶
Hernán, M. A., & Robins, J. M. (2016). Using Big Data to Emulate a Target Trial When a Randomized Trial Is Not Available. American Journal of Epidemiology.
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- Endogeneity
- Labour economics — the textbook case: returns to schooling and the unobserved-ability confound on the Mincer equation. Industrial organisation — price-quantity simultaneity in demand estimation. Development economics — programme placement endogenous to baseline characteristics. Macroeconomics — policy variables that respond to the economic conditions they are meant to explain. Epidemiology — confounding-by-indication, selection-into-treatment, and reverse causation, now organised under target-trial emulation
This sourceHernán and Robins' framework for causal inference from observational databases, which makes the target trial explicit and channels counterfactual theory into a structured criticism of observational studies.
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“We outline a framework for comparative effectiveness research using big data that makes the target trial explicit.”
- Labour economics — the textbook case: returns to schooling and the unobserved-ability confound on the Mincer equation. Industrial organisation — price-quantity simultaneity in demand estimation. Development economics — programme placement endogenous to baseline characteristics. Macroeconomics — policy variables that respond to the economic conditions they are meant to explain. Epidemiology — confounding-by-indication, selection-into-treatment, and reverse causation, now organised under target-trial emulation
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