Darren L Dahly PhD oMG FFs jFcICYMI:
Out of balance
An essay on covariate adjustment in randomized controlled trials in medicine.
Peter Tennant, PhDYou've lost me. Isn't balancing the outcome propensity asymptotically identical to balancing the determinants of the outcome?
Following that, in a finite world, can't you get a better approximate of perfect balance in the outcome propensities by conditioning on the determinants of the outcome?
Maybe I'm being moronic. It certainly seems like we disagree on the utility of conceptualising confounding error as the random analog of confounding bias.