CAUSAL DATA SCIENCE

The Bayesian Bootstrap

A short guide to a simple and powerful extension of the bootstrap

Matteo Courthoud
9 min readAug 8, 2022

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In causal inference we do not want just to compute treatment effects, we also want to do inference. Understanding the uncertainty surrounding a point estimate is often much more informative and valuable than the point itself. In some cases, it’s very easy to…

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