Empirical Evaluation of the Performance of CEVAE under Misspecification of the Latent Dimensionality

Causal machine learning deals with the inference of causal relationships between variables in observational datasets. <br/>For certain datasets, it is correct to assume a causal graph where information about unobserved confounders can only be obtained through noisy proxies, and CEVAE aims to address this case. <br/>The number of dimensions of...

Using Nearest-Neighbors to Evaluate Overlap in Causal Inference

To validate the results of a medical trial, there must be an overlap between the treatment and control groups. This implies the crucial need for good evaluation methods. This study, therefore, aimed to evaluate the overlap between causal classes using the Nearest Neighbours’ methods. Firstly, a case study was built around the common failures of...

Energy Efficiency Valuation: Estimating the increase in expected transaction price due to improved energy efficiency in the Dutch housing market

Recent advancements in causal inference and machine learning research have brought forward methods to estimate effects of interventions from observational data. The augmented inverse probability weighted (AIPW) estimator is such a method, which can be used to obtain estimates of potential outcomes. Potential outcomes are defined as a...