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COMPEL Glossary / synthetic-control
Synthetic control
A counterfactual constructed from a weighted combination of untreated donor units — the "synthetic" version of the treated unit.
What this means in practice
Used where only one (or a few) units receive the AI treatment and a clean control is unavailable; particularly relevant to enterprise-scale rollouts.
Synonyms
synthetic control method , SCM
See also
- Difference-in-differences (DiD) — A quasi-experimental design comparing treated and control trajectories over time — identifying causal effect from differential change.
- Counterfactual outcome — The outcome that would have occurred without the AI intervention — the benchmark against which incremental AI value is measured.
- Propensity-score matching — An observational-study method matching treated and control units on estimated probability of receiving treatment, then comparing outcomes across matched pairs.