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Causal Inference with Bayesian Networks
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This chapter presents four meta-learning algorithms that are most prominently employed for estimating the Conditional Average Treatment Effect (CATE). Meta-learners are machine learning algorithms that derive information from the results of other machine learning algorithms, known as base learners. The goal of estimating the CATE is to gain insights into heterogeneous treatment effects (HTEs), where treatment effects vary across population individuals and subgroups. For example, some individuals may respond to treatment with more or less positive or negative effects, or no effect at all. Evaluating HTEs provides valuable information to decision-makers and policymakers in real-world applications, including medicine, epidemiology, economics, and social research. We demonstrate the implementation of the meta-learners in Python. We describe a causal model for generating synthetic data, which is used throughout to evaluate the performance of the implemented...