I think counterfactual outcome state transition parameters is a bad name in that it doesn’t help people identify where and why they should use it, nor does it communicate all that well what it really is. I’d want to thesaurus each of the key terms in order to search for something punchier. You might object that essentially ‘marketing’ an esoteric statistics concept seems perverse, but papers with memorable titles do in fact outperform according to the data AFAIK. Sucks but what can you do?
I bother to go into this because this research area seems important enough to warrant attention and I worry it won’t get it.
Thank you! I will think about whether I can come up with a catchier name for future publications (and about whether the benefits outweight the costs of rebranding).
If anyone has suggestions for a better name (for an effect measure that intuitively measures the probability that the exposure switches a person’s outcome state), please let me know!
I think counterfactual outcome state transition parameters is a bad name in that it doesn’t help people identify where and why they should use it, nor does it communicate all that well what it really is. I’d want to thesaurus each of the key terms in order to search for something punchier. You might object that essentially ‘marketing’ an esoteric statistics concept seems perverse, but papers with memorable titles do in fact outperform according to the data AFAIK. Sucks but what can you do?
I bother to go into this because this research area seems important enough to warrant attention and I worry it won’t get it.
Thank you! I will think about whether I can come up with a catchier name for future publications (and about whether the benefits outweight the costs of rebranding).
If anyone has suggestions for a better name (for an effect measure that intuitively measures the probability that the exposure switches a person’s outcome state), please let me know!