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Observational studies vs experiments

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"Understand why random assignment provides evidence for a causal relationship in an experimental study."

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"Understand why random assignment provides evidence for a causal relationship in an experimental study."

What you'll learn

  1. Classify a described study as an observational study or an experiment, and state whether its groups were formed by random assignment
  2. Explain why random assignment makes the groups of an experiment comparable, so that a difference in their outcomes is evidence that the treatment caused it
  3. Identify random selection and random assignment in a study description, and state what each one does

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