A Primer on the Analysis of Randomized Experiments and a Survey of some Recent Advances

Y Bai, AM Shaikh, M Tabord-Meehan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.03910, 2024 - arxiv.org
The past two decades have witnessed a surge of new research in the analysis of
randomized experiments. The emergence of this literature may seem surprising given the …

Experimental design for causal inference through an optimization lens

J Zhao - … in Operations Research: Smarter Decisions for a …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
The study of experimental design offers tremendous benefits for answering causal questions
across a wide range of applications, including agricultural experiments, clinical trials …

Low-order outcomes and clustered designs: combining design and analysis for causal inference under network interference

M Eichhorn, S Khan, J Ugander, CL Yu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.07979, 2024 - arxiv.org
Variance reduction for causal inference in the presence of network interference is often
achieved through either outcome modeling, which is typically analyzed under unit …