Coronavirus, Telemedicine, and Race: Simulated Real-World Evidence

Causal inference tutorial in R using synthetic data (Part 1)

Eric J. Daza, DrPH, MPS
Towards Data Science
20 min readApr 15, 2020

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We would overstate our telemedicine app’s effectiveness by claiming it reduces the risk of new coronavirus infections by 16.9% — when in fact it will only…

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