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Thus the average outcome among the treatment units serves as a counterfactual for the average outcome among the control units. The differences between these two averages is the ATE, which is an estimate of the central tendency of the distribution of unobservable individual-level treatment effects. [2]
Compliance refers to the human-subject response to a proposed experimental treatment condition. Similar to the ATE, the LATE is calculated but does not include non-compliant parties. If the goal is to evaluate the effect of a treatment in ideal, compliant subjects, the LATE value will give a more precise estimate.
Difference in differences (DID [1] or DD [2]) is a statistical technique used in econometrics and quantitative research in the social sciences that attempts to mimic an experimental research design using observational study data, by studying the differential effect of a treatment on a 'treatment group' versus a 'control group' in a natural experiment. [3]
An estimate that turns out to be incorrect will be an overestimate if the estimate exceeds the actual result [3] and an underestimate if the estimate falls short of the actual result. [ 4 ] The confidence in an estimate is quantified as a confidence interval , the likelihood that the estimate is in a certain range.
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The goal is to estimate the potential outcome, (), that would be observed if the subject were assigned treatment . Then compare the mean outcome if all patients in the population were assigned either treatment: μ a = E Y ∗ ( a ) {\displaystyle \mu _{a}=\mathbb {E} Y^{*}(a)} .
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