CAUSAL DATA SCIENCE

Understanding Contamination Bias

Problems and solutions of linear regression with multiple treatments

Matteo Courthoud
12 min readJun 13, 2022

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In many causal inference settings, we might be interested in the effect of not just one treatment, but many mutually exclusive treatments. For example, we might want to test alternative UX designs, or drugs, or policies. Depending on the…

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