Metalearners for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects using machine learning

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Summary

A metalearner, the X-learner, is proposed, which can adapt to structural properties, such as the smoothness and sparsity of the underlying treatment effect, and is shown to be easy to use and to produce results that are interpretable.

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2017-06-12
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Smoothness, Estimator, Computer science, Machine learning, Treatment effect

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