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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences· 2016Q1

Recursive partitioning for heterogeneous causal effects

Susan Athey, Guido W. Imbens

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A new 'honest' estimation method using recursive partitioning accurately identifies subpopulations with differing causal treatment effects, achieving 90% confidence interval coverage compared to 74-84% for non-honest methods in simulations.

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Field: Statistics and Probability

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