Practical Guide


A Practical Guide to ITCV and RIR

The document is intended to serve as a practical guide to implementing the Impact Threshold of a Confounding Variable (ITCV), a sensitivity analysis approach based on omitted variables, and Robustness of Inference to Replacement (RIR), a sensitivity analysis approach based on replacement of cases.

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Citation

*Frank, K. A., *Saw, G. K., Lin, Q., Xu, R., Rosenberg, J. M., Maroulis, S. J., & Staudt Willet, K. B. (2025, August). A practical guide to impact threshold of a confounding variable (ITCV) and robustness of inference to replacement (RIR) (Version 2). Michigan State University. PDF Link | DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/pdgbz_v2

* Equal first authors.

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