AI & Machine Learning
AlterLab Ssci Design Gate
Routes a social-science study to its research design — true experiment, quasi-experiment (difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, interrupted time series, fixed effects), observational/correlational, qualitative, or mixed — by walking the random-selection and random-assignment decisions, then PINS the identifying assumption the causal claim will rest on (parallel trends, exclusion restriction, continuity at the cutoff, selection-on-observables, or qualitative saturation logic) before any analysis begins. Use when choosing a study design, asking what design to use, framing a causal question from observational data, or deciding experiment vs quasi-experiment vs observational. For executing the analysis prefer alterlab-statistical-analysis; for qualitative design depth prefer alterlab-qualitative-methods; for choosing the statistical test downstream prefer alterlab-test-selection-guard. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
- Publisher / source
- AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (found on the CSV list)
- Upstream record
- AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills
- Version
- Version 2
- Published
- Publication review
- Approved for publication
- Content fingerprint
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