割り当て変数が連続であり(例えば学生補助)、他の観測変数(例えば家計収入)に依存する時、処置関数の傾きのシャープな変化を用いて処置効果を識別することができる。この技法は Nielsen, Sørensen, and Tabe (2010) によって回帰ねじれデザイン(英: regression kink design)と名づけられている(ただ彼らは似たような先行研究を参照している)[16]。彼らは次のように述べている。『この方法は回帰不連続の考え方に似ている。年金所得関数の水準の不連続性の代わりに、その関数の傾きの不連続性を我々は得ている。』("This approach resembles the regression discontinuity idea. Instead of a discontinuity of in the level of the stipend-income function, we have a discontinuity in the slope of the function.")厳密な理論的基礎は Card et al. (2012) により与えられている[17]。
回帰ねじれ(もしくはねじれた回帰)は一種の分割回帰を意味している。
脚注
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^Moss, B. G.; Yeaton, W. H.; Lloyd, J.E. (2014), “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Developmental Mathematics by Embedding a Randomized Experiment Within a Regression Discontinuity Design.”, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis36 (2): 170–185, doi:10.3102/0162373713504988
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^Moss, B. G.; Yeaton, W. H.; Lioyd, J. E. (2013), “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Developmental Mathematics by Embedding a Randomized Experiment Within a Regression Discontinuity Design”, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis36 (2): 170, doi:10.3102/0162373713504988
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