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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Identification We now discuss formally the statistical problem of causal inference. We start by describing the problem using standard statistical notation. It should be noted that inverse probability weighting is not generally optimal (i.e., An excellent review of statistical learning methods may be found in Friedman et.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

In 2001, Bill Cleveland writes this article saying, “You are doing it wrong.” or are you looking for me to help you decide on what is the optimal treatment in order to get the outcome you want?” They want to know what’s the optimal treatment. ” Inside my group I say.