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Abbreviated Interrupted Time-Series - Institute for Policy Research

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Threat to SCV<br />

• When a treatment is implemented slowly and<br />

diffusely, as in the alcohol warning label study, the<br />

researcher has to specify a time point at which the<br />

intervention “took effect”<br />

– Is it the date the law took effect?<br />

– Is it a later date (and if so, did the researcher<br />

capitalize on chance in selecting that date)?<br />

– Is it possible to create a “diffusion model” instead<br />

of a single date of implementation?

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