Synthetic Control: Pitfalls, Limitations, & Metrics to Know Before the Test
Part 3 of 3: how to choose the test city, donor pool, time grain and metric for Synthetic Control, with industry examples, limitations and a leadership summary.
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Part 3 of 3: how to choose the test city, donor pool, time grain and metric for Synthetic Control, with industry examples, limitations and a leadership summary.
Part 2 of 3: validate a Synthetic Control result with RMSPE, the RMSPE ratio, placebo tests, plus the Python code that fits the weights.
Part 1 of 3: what Synthetic Control is, why it beats before-vs-after and single control-city tests, with a hand-checkable free-delivery example.
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