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Is there a way to estimate the standard errors for a linear combination of the ATE across multiple arms? #1430

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DanKluger opened this issue Jul 12, 2024 · 0 comments

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When applying the "average_treatment_effect" function to the output of a "multi_arm_causal_forest" with K>2 arms, a table with K-1 ATEs is returned along with standard error estimates for those ATEs. I'm not sure if the covariance matrix of the K-1 ATE estimators is stored anywhere, but I was wondering if it is at all possible to obtain the standard errors for an arbitrary linear combination of the K-1 ATEs?

I am particularly motivated by an example where there are two binary treatments that take values in {0,1} and would like to estimate the interaction between the two treatments given by E[Y(1,1)-Y(0,1)-Y(1,0)+Y(0,0)]. I was able to get a point estimate of this interaction by first running "multi_arm_causal_forest" where the arms were the 4 combinations of the treatments and by afterwards taking sums and differences between the ATE estimates returned by "average_treatment_effect". However, I was unable to obtain a confidence interval for the estimated interaction. In case it is helpful for clarity, I am attaching an example of an attempt to do this on synthetic data.

Thank you very much for maintaining this useful package and for considering this query.

GithubInteractionQuestion.pdf

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