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To Balance or Not to Balance?

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In an ideal world, experimentation through randomization of the treatment assignment allows the identification and consistent estimation of causal effects. This algorithm is implemented in the SuperLearner R package (Polley & van der Laan, 2014). This is often referred to as the positivity assumption.