Daniel Stjepanovic

Feb 11, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Tianze Sun |Daniel Stjepanovic |Giang Vu |Wayne Hall

INTRODUCTION Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered by many applied researchers as the gold standard for causal inference [1]. With a sufficiently large sample size, randomizing participants to treatment or control (placebo) conditions ensures that, in a probabilistic sense, all pre-treatment variables, measured or unmeasured, are similarly distributed across conditions up to the time of randomization. This theoretically allows the treatment effect to be isolated.