CAUSAL DATA SCIENCE

Understanding Causal Trees

How to use regression trees to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects

Matteo Courthoud
15 min readFeb 3, 2023

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In causal inference, we are usually interested in estimating the causal effect of a treatment (a drug, ad, product, …) on an outcome of interest (a disease, firm revenue, customer satisfaction, …). However, knowing that a treatment works on…

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