Compared to a More Standard Experimental Design Which Would Assign

question 30

Multiple Choice

Compared to a more standard experimental design which would assign observations to a control group or to a treatment group, a synthetic cohort analysis

• A) only has a treatment group.
• B) only has a control group.
• C) assigns observations to the control or treatment group based on certain demographics such as location or race.
• D) finds other populations that "mirror" the treatment group in many ways in order to argue that these other populations can serve as a valid control group.
• E) uses a sophisticated algorithm to estimate data for observations in the control group.

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Definitions:

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