CAUSAL DATA SCIENCE

Understanding Synthetic Control Methods

A detailed guide to one of the most popular causal inference techniques in the industry

Matteo Courthoud
15 min readJul 30, 2022

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It is now widely accepted that the gold standard technique to compute the causal effect of a treatment (a drug, ad, product, …) on an outcome of interest (a disease, firm revenue, customer…

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