QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS WORKSHOP
Abstract: Exploratory data analysis, confirmatory data analysis and replication are three important aspects of building strong evidence from observational studies. Exploratory data analysis, confirmatory data analysis and replication are often thought of as being done on separate studies. However, for settings where randomized experiments are impossible to conduct for ethical reasons and observational studies must be relied on, it is common that there is a data set with unique strengths. We develop a two-team cross screening approach that allows for exploratory data analysis, confirmatory data analysis and replication to be done in the same observational study data set. We apply the approach to study the effect of unwanted pregnancy on mothers’ later life outcomes using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. This is joint work with Samrat Roy, Marina Bogomolov, Ruth Heller, Amy Claridge and Tishra Beeson.
Dylan Small, PhD is the Universal Furniture Professor and the Chair of the Department of Statistics and Data Science at The Wharton School. Dr. Small’s research interests include causal inference, design, and analysis of experiments and observational studies for comparing treatments, longitudinal data, measurement error, and applications of statistics to health and public policy. He has served the statistical community by acting as an Associate Editor for numerous journals, including the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, The American Statistician, Journal of Causal Inference, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, and the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. He is the founding Editor of Observational Studies. In 2013, Dr. Small received the honor of being named an American Statistical Association Fellow. Dr. Small received his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University.
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The Quantitative Research Methods Workshop series is sponsored by the ISPS Center for the Study of American Politics and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale with support from the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund.