natural experiment

empirical study in which individuals/clusters exposed to the experimental and control conditions are determined by factors outside the control of the investigators (nature), but the process governing the exposures arguably resembles random assignment
Class type of: observational study Q6980675

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🏷️ Also known as
en natural experiment ar تعمية (طب) ar تعميه (إحصاء) ar تعمية cs přirozený experiment da naturligt eksperiment de natürliches Experiment es experimento natural fa آزمایش طبیعی fi luonnollinen koe fr expérience naturelle he ניסוי טבעי it esperimento naturale ja 自然実験 ko 자연 실험 pl eksperyment naturalny pl eksperyment w warunkach naturalnych ru Естественный эксперимент sv naturligt experiment uk Природний експеримент
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C49630185
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JSTOR topic ID (archived)
natural-experiments
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
49630185

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