An observational study is an empiric investigation of effects
caused by treatments when randomized experimentation is unethical
or infeasible. Observational studies are common in most fields that
study the effects of treatments on people, including medicine,
economics, epidemiology, education, psychology, political science
and sociology. The quality and strength of evidence provided by an
observational study is determined largely by its design. Design of
Observational Studies is both an introduction to statistical
inference in observational studies and a detailed discussion of the
principles that guide the design of observational studies.
Design of Observational Studies is divided into four parts.
Chapters 2, 3, and 5 of Part I cover concisely, in about one
hundred pages, many of the ideas discussed in Rosenbaum's
Observational Studies (also published by Springer) but in a less
technical fashion. Part II discusses the practical aspects of using
propensity scores and other tools to create a matched comparison
that balances many covariates. Part II includes a chapter on
matching in R. In Part III, the concept of design sensitivity is
used to appraise the relative ability of competing designs to
distinguish treatment effects from biases due to unmeasured
covariates. Part IV discusses planning the analysis of an
observational study, with particular reference to Sir Ronald
Fisher's striking advice for observational studies, "make your
theories elaborate."
The second edition of his book, Observational Studies, was
published by Springer in 2002.
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