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SUBMITTER: Hinne M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9246148 | biostudies-literature | 2022
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hinne Max M Leeftink David D van Gerven Marcel A J MAJ Ambrogioni Luca L
PloS one 20220630 6
Quasi-experimental research designs, such as regression discontinuity and interrupted time series, allow for causal inference in the absence of a randomized controlled trial, at the cost of additional assumptions. In this paper, we provide a framework for discontinuity-based designs using Bayesian model averaging and Gaussian process regression, which we refer to as 'Bayesian nonparametric discontinuity design', or BNDD for short. BNDD addresses the two major shortcomings in most implementations ...[more]