stat.ME · 2026-09-24 · No. 123

Methodology, 2026-09-24.

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    Beyond the Illusion of Power: Calibrating Quasi-Experiments in Observational IS

    Spandan Ghose Chowdhury

    stat.ME · cs.AI · cs.LG

    Information systems (IS) researchers increasingly use quasi-experimental methods such as difference-in-differences (DiD) and instrumental variables (IV) to recover causal effects from observational panel data. Power calculations that justify these designs assume i.i.d. errors, but the deeper problem is what even a cluster-robust calculator cannot see. We report a Monte Carlo study over 9837 parameter conditions (approx 9.8 million datasets)...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.27299 · PDF

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