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Abbreviated Interrupted Time-Series - Institute for Policy Research

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Threats to Validity: History<br />

• With most simple ITS, the major threat to<br />

internal validity is history—that some other<br />

event occurred around the same time as the<br />

intervention and could have produced the<br />

same effect.<br />

• Possible solutions:<br />

– Add a control group time series<br />

– Add a nonequivalent dependent variable<br />

– The narrower the intervals measured (e.g.,<br />

monthly rather than yearly), the fewer the<br />

historical events that can explain the findings<br />

within that interval.

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