This article describes causal mechanism and effect analysis (CMEA) as an alternative to failure mode and effect analysis ...
The majority of recent empirical papers in operations management (OM) employ observational data to investigate the causal effects of a treatment, such as program or policy adoption. However, as ...
Randomized controlled trials are considered the golden standard for estimating treatment effect but are costly to perform and not always possible. Observational data, although readily available, is ...
Our foray into causal analysis is not yet complete. Until we define the methods of causal inference, we can't get to the deeper insights that causal analysis can provide. This article details many of ...
A new statistical tool can help researchers get meaningful results when a randomized experiment, considered the gold standard, is not possible. Randomized experiments split participants into groups by ...
Correspondence to Dr Eivind Schjelderup Skarpsno, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; eivind.s.skarpsno{at}ntnu.no Although ...