CAUSAL DATA SCIENCE

Double Debiased Machine Learning (part 1)

Causal inference, machine learning, and regularization bias

Matteo Courthoud
10 min readMay 31, 2022

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In causal inference, we often estimate causal effects by conditioning the analysis on other variables. We usually refer to these variables as control variables or confounders. In randomized control trials or AB tests, conditioning can…

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