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Journal Article

Citation

Baker MJ. Hist. Methods 2018; 51(1): 49-61.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/01615440.2017.1408440

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

During the U.S. Civil War surgeons performed a vast number of surgeries. Whether surgery increased wounded soldiers' chances of survival has been debated ever since. I analyze a unique observational data set gathered by Dr. Edmund Andrews, a surgeon with the 1st Illinois Light Artillery. I use Dr. Andrews's data, model selection tools, and doubly robust estimation methods to estimate treatment effects from surgery. I find that surgery increased wounded soldiers' chances of survival by 0.09-0.16, depending on the specific model of surgical procedure.


Language: en

Keywords

Augmented inverse probability weighted estimator; Civil War; doubly robust estimator; model selection; treatment effects

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