Machine Learning for Estimating Causal Effects – October 2022

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A 3-Day Livestream Seminar Taught by Ashley Naimi, Ph.D

Machine learning is increasingly being used to evaluate cause-effect relations with social, economic, health, and business data. When used properly, these tools have tremendous potential to yield robust effect estimates with minimal assumptions. However, both machine learning and causal inference techniques add considerable complexity to an analysis, making proper use a challenge.

In this seminar, you will learn how to minimize biases that result from improper use of machine learning methods to answer practical questions about cause-effect relations in non-experimental data.

We will discuss how machine learning can be used to relax modeling assumptions, while avoiding problems with machine learning methods that result from the “curse of dimensionality.”

Through practical data and coding examples, you will learn to use cutting-edge “double-robust” machine learning methods (targeted minimum loss-based estimation, augmented inverse probability weighting) to estimate different treatment effects in real and simulated data.

The course will focus on building intuition, with numerous coding examples to gain practical experience.

This course will build up concepts from first principles. Prior experience with machine learning and causal inference will be helpful, but is not required. Students would benefit from some prior experience with the R programming language.

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