Donald B. Rubin

ThinkersBorn 1943Statistician

Works

  • The Central Role of the Propensity Score in Observational Studies for Causal Effects, Biometrika, 1983

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Known for

A Harvard statistician known for the potential outcomes framework for causal inference, the Rubin causal model. With Paul R. Rosenbaum he showed that comparing treated and untreated units with the same propensity score, the probability of treatment given observed covariates, removes bias from those covariates.

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