Summary of Causal Machine Learning For Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in the Presence Of Missing Outcome Data, by Matthew Pryce et al.
Causal machine learning for heterogeneous treatment effects in the presence of missing outcome data
by Matthew Pryce, Karla Diaz-Ordaz, Ruth H. Keogh, Stijn Vansteelandt
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper addresses a common issue in causal machine learning: missing outcome data that can lead to under-representation of certain subgroups. The authors discuss the impact of missing at random (MAR) outcome data on conditional average treatment effect (CATE) estimation and propose two de-biased estimators, mDR-learner and mEP-learner, which integrate inverse probability of censoring weights to address this issue. These oracle-efficient estimators outperform existing CATE methods in simulated settings. The authors provide guidance on implementation and demonstrate the application of these estimators using real-world data from the ACTG175 trial. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re trying to figure out how different groups of people respond to different treatments. But, sometimes you don’t have all the information for each person, which can make it hard to get accurate results. This paper talks about a way to fix this problem by using special math formulas to make sure that everyone’s data is counted equally. The authors show that their new method works better than other methods in test cases and use real-world data from a medical trial to demonstrate its effectiveness. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Probability
