Using a satisficing model of experimenter decision-making to guide finite-sample inference for compromised experiments
以实验者满意化决策模型指导受损实验的有限样本推断
Summary This paper presents a simple decision-theoretic economic approach for analysing social experiments with compromised random assignment protocols that are only partially documented. We model administratively constrained experimenters who satisfice in seeking covariate balance. We develop design-based small-sample hypothesis tests that use worst-case (least favourable) randomization null distributions. Our approach accommodates a variety of compromised experiments,…