Estimation and Inference of Heterogenous Treatment Effects Using Random Forest arXiv

by Stefan Wager and Susan Athey

Presenter: Min Xu

Presenter’s Comments: This talk will introduce the problem of heterogeneous treatment effect estimation and touch on both the Wager and Athey paper as well as an earlier paper, Recursive Partitioning for Heterogeneous Causal Effects arXiv. No prior knowledge in causal inference needed.