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Statistical Decision Properties of Imprecise Trials Assessing COVID-19 Drugs
Charles F. Manski, Aleksey Tetenov
As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, researchers are reporting findings of randomized trials comparing standard care with care augmented by experimental drugs. The trials have smal…
Statistical inference for statistical decisions
Charles F. Manski
The Wald development of statistical decision theory addresses decision making with sample data. Wald's concept of a statistical decision function (SDF) embraces all mappings of the…
Treatment Choice in Heterogeneous Populations Using Experiments without Covariate Data (Invited Paper)
Charles F. Manski
I examine the problem of treatment choice when a planner observes (i) covariates that describe each member of a population of interest and (ii) the outcomes of an experiment in whi…
Skip sequencing: A decision problem in questionnaire design
Charles F. Manski, Francesca Molinari
This paper studies questionnaire design as a formal decision problem, focusing on one element of the design process: skip sequencing. We propose that a survey planner use an explic…