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Journal of the American Statistical Association· 2017Q1

Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests

Stefan Wager, Susan Athey

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A new 'causal forest' method, extending random forests, provides statistically valid inference for heterogeneous treatment effects, outperforming traditional methods especially with irrelevant variables.

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Field: Statistics and Probability

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