In his 2022 IMS Medallion Lecture delivered at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Prof. Dylan S. Small eloquently advocated for the use of protocols in observational studies. We discuss his proposal and, inspired by his ideas, we develop a protocol for the regression discontinuity design.

翻译：在2022年联合统计会议上发表的IMS奖章讲座中，Dylan S. Small教授雄辩地倡导在观察性研究中使用协议。我们讨论了他的提议，并受其思想启发，为回归不连续性设计开发了一种协议。