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Protocols for Observational Studies: Methods and Open Problems
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For learning about the causal effect of a treatment, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) is considered the gold standard. However, randomizing treatment is sometimes unethical or infeasible, and instead an observational study may be conducted. While some aspects of a well-designed RCT cannot be replicated in an observational study, one aspect that can is to have a protocol with prespecified hypotheses about prespecified outcomes and a prespecified analysis. We illustrate the value of protocols for observational studies in three applications-the effect of playing high school football on later life mental functioning, the effect of police seizing a gun when arresting a domestic violence suspect on future domestic violence and the effect of mountaintop mining on health. We then discuss methodologies for observational study protocols. We discuss considerations for protocols that are similar between observational studies and RCTs, and considerations that are different. The considerations that are different include (i) whether the protocol should be specified before treatment assignment is known or after; (ii) how multiple outcomes should be incorporated into the planned analysis and (iii) how subgroups should be incorporated into the planned analysis. We conclude with discussion of a few open problems in the methodology of observational study protocols.
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Causal inference
sensitivity analysis
matching
planned analysis
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