2 papers
stat.ME2026
Lost in Aggregation: The Causal Interpretation of the IV Estimand
Danielle Tsao, Krikamol Muandet, Frederick Eberhardt +1
Instrumental variable estimation has emerged as a standard approach to mitigating confounding bias in the social sciences and epidemiology, where conducting randomized experiments…
math.ST2024
On the minimum strength of (unobserved) covariates to overturn an insignificant result
Danielle Tsao, Ronan Perry, Carlos Cinelli
We study conditions under which the addition of variables to a regression equation can turn a previously statistically insignificant result into a significant one. Specifically, we…