Experimentation and Causal Inference

A Practitioner’s Guide To Interrupted Time Series

Basics, Assumptions, Merits, Limitations, and Applications

Leihua Ye, PhD
Towards Data Science
5 min readNov 21, 2019

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Background

In the world of causal inference, Randomized Controlled Trials, RCTs, are considered the gold standard as it rules out any covariate differences before…

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