Threats to validity
Content for week of Monday, February 15, 2021–Friday, February 19, 2021
Readings
- Randall Munroe, “Significant”
- Alexander Coppock, “10 Things to Know About Statistical Power”
- Play around with FiveThirtyEight, “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory”
- Chapter 9 in Impact Evaluation in Practice1
Slides
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Videos
Videos for each section of the lecture are available at this YouTube playlist.
You can also watch the playlist (and skip around to different sections) here:
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Paul J. Gertler et al., Impact Evaluation in Practice, 2nd ed. (Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank, 2016), https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030. ↩︎