Compared to a more standard experimental design which would assign observations to a control group or to a treatment group, a synthetic cohort analysis
A) only has a treatment group.
B) only has a control group.
C) assigns observations to the control or treatment group based on certain demographics such as location or race.
D) finds other populations that "mirror" the treatment group in many ways in order to argue that these other populations can serve as a valid control group.
E) uses a sophisticated algorithm to estimate data for observations in the control group.

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The Answer of Compared to a more standard experimental design which would assign observations to a control group or to a treatment group, a synthetic cohort analysis
A) only has a treatment group.
B) only has a control group.
C) assigns observations to the control or treatment group based on certain demographics such as location or race.
D) finds other populations that "mirror" the treatment group in many ways in order to argue that these other populations can serve as a valid control group.
E) uses a sophisticated algorithm to estimate data for observations in the control group.

Compared to a More Standard Experimental Design Which Would Assign