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A comparative method that weights untreated units to approximate a treated unit’s pre-intervention trajectory, then compares outcomes afterward.
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A weighted set of untreated units approximates the treated unit’s earlier path.Name a method that builds a weighted comparison for an intervention’s counterfactual trajectory.
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- construct a synthetic control
- synthetic control method
- donor pool
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The city used a synthetic control built from comparable regions to estimate the effect of the transit line.
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Often used for a small number of treated units; the fit before intervention and the choice of donor units matter.
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