A Worthwhile, Conservative Strategy for Minimizing the Possibility of Invalid

question 16

Multiple Choice

A worthwhile, conservative strategy for minimizing the possibility of invalid causal conclusions due to differential attrition is ______.

• A) ensuring at the outset of the experiment that subject assignment is truly random
• B) recruiting only subjects with stable residential histories and ongoing institutional ties
• C) combining matching with randomization
• D) basing the outcome analysis on comparing all subjects initially assigned to each condition

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