CAUSAL DATA SCIENCE

Understanding Meta Learners

How to use machine learning to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects

Matteo Courthoud
Towards Data Science
10 min readJul 12, 2022

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In many settings, we are not just interested in estimating a causal effect, but also in whether this effect is different for different users. We might be interested in understanding if a drug has side effects that are different for people…

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