Thomas D. Cook, a professor of sociology, psychology, education, and social policy at Northwestern University, criticizes education researchers’ reluctance to perform randomized experiments. He points ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 113, No. 27 (July 5, 2016), pp. 7383-7390 (8 pages) We provide a principled way for investigators to analyze ...

A new statistical tool can help researchers get meaningful results when a randomized experiment, considered the gold standard, is not possible. A new statistical tool can help researchers get ...

Randomized experiments have long been a cornerstone of scientific research. And many tech companies run randomized tests to learn from the huge amounts of data their customers generate. In 2019, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Two common concerns raised in analyses of randomized experiments are (i) appropriately handling issues of non-compliance, and (ii) ...

In order to make smart decisions at work, we need data. Where that data comes from and how we analyze it depends on a lot of factors — for example, what we’re trying to do with the results, how ...

New research sheds light on whether common approaches for online advertising measurement are as reliable and accurate as the 'gold standard' of large-scale, randomized experiments. Researchers from ...