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by AnthonyMouse 2671 days ago
Propensity scoring is a method of applying statistical controls. How does it address the issue of controls compounding measurement error?
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That’s the whole point of doubly robust models. However, in the event of confounding by indication or sampling misspecification, my experience is that nothing can save you.

I am a rather strong proponent of randomized trials for this exact reason. (They can also have sampling bias, but some degree of noise is inevitable)