ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2018
The "average" treatment effect: A construct ripe for retirement. A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright.
Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Assessment of the predictive power of a causal variable: An application to the Head Start impact study.SSM - population health · 2022Article
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- Risk factors relate to the variability of health outcomes as well as the mean: A GAMLSS tutorial.eLife · 2022Article
- Accommodating Serial Correlation and Sequential Design Elements in Personalized Studies and Aggregated Personalized Studies.Harvard data science review · 2022Article
- Treatment effect heterogeneity in the head start impact study: A systematic review of study characteristics and findings.SSM - population health · 2021Review
- The relative importance of households as a source of variation in child malnutrition: a multilevel analysis in India.International journal for equity in health · 2021Article
- The legacy of a standard of normality in child nutrition research.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Patterning of individual variability in neurocognitive health among South African women exposed to childhood maltreatment.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Explaining Within- vs Between-Population Variation in Child Anthropometry and Hemoglobin Measures in India: A Multilevel Analysis of the National Family Health Survey 2015-2016.Journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Improving Mental Health Services: A 50-Year Journey from Randomized Experiments to Artificial Intelligence and Precision Mental Health.Administration and policy in mental health · 2020Article
- Heterogeneity in adult anthropometry by socioeconomic factors: Indian National Family Health Survey 2006 and 2016.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Article
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