- The framework is a way to show the current mode of quantitative inquiry: Hypotheses about regression coefficients. 
- Regression Coefficients: In statistics, the estimation of unknown population parameters between a predictor variable and a response. 
- This inquiry allows the research goal to happen inside the statistical model. If the research goal is a particular model, then you are committed to that model. Stating the research goal allows you to answer research questions that may come up when conducting the research.  

Framework for the Quantitative Social Sciences: Hypotheses about Regression Coefficients 

- The theoretical estimand has two aspects: One is the unit specific quantity, which tells the realized outcome and the other is the theoretical estimand of a target population
- A paper may have multiple Theoretical Estimands. 
 

Theoretical Estimand

The first is a unit-specific quantity: defined as a realized outcome, a potential outcome, or a difference in potential outcomes. Potential outcome can have an intervention of more than one variable. 



Goal setting 

- We should all ask one question when thinking about quantitative talks or articles: What is the estimand? 
- The estimate is an object of inquiry, and it talks about the precise quantity about which data we use to make an inference.
- Framework for quantitative social sciences when making a precise statement. 
 

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Topics can be studied from many perspectives, which can all yield their own respective insight into the bigger picture (each can contribute a new "dimension" of understanding).

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Lundberg, I., Johnson, R., & Stewart, B. (2020, January 7). What is Your Estimand? Defining the Target Quantity Connects Statistical Evidence to Theory. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ba67n

What is your Estimand? Defining the target Quantity Connects Statistical Evidence to Theory  

Introduction Of Setting the Target 


The point of this article is clearly identified by a question in the abstract: 
- "Every quantitative study must be able to answer this question: what is your estimand?" 
- The Estimand is defined as a way to tell the purpose of the statistical analysis. It creates attention to what we do when Estimating. There are three things one should follow when identifying an estimand, and that is (1) set a theoretical estimand, and (2) link it to an empirical estimand, (3) learn from the data 
- By following these steps, we can connect statistical estimates to theory. 

Abstract Of Setting the target 

Details a proposed link between theory and evidence 

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