Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests

DOI10.1080/01621459.2017.1319839zbMath1402.62056arXiv1510.04342OpenAlexW2208550830MaRDI QIDQ4559704

Publication date: 4 December 2018

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04342

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normality potential outcomes unconfoundedness adaptive nearest neighbors matching

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Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics (62-04) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05)

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