Methods and tools for causal discovery and causal inference

AR Nogueira, A Pugnana, S Ruggieri… - … reviews: data mining …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Causality is a complex concept, which roots its developments across several fields, such as
statistics, economics, epidemiology, computer science, and philosophy. In recent years, the …

[HTML][HTML] Moving beyond descriptive studies: harnessing metabolomics to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underpinning host-microbiome phenotypes

SL Bishop, M Drikic, S Wacker, YY Chen… - Mucosal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Advances in technology and software have radically expanded the scope of metabolomics
studies and allow us to monitor a broad transect of central carbon metabolism in routine …

Causal effect inference for structured treatments

J Kaddour, Y Zhu, Q Liu… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We address the estimation of conditional average treatment effects (CATEs) for structured
treatments (eg, graphs, images, texts). Given a weak condition on the effect, we propose the …

-Intact-VAE: Identifying and Estimating Causal Effects under Limited Overlap

P Wu, K Fukumizu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05225, 2021 - arxiv.org
As an important problem in causal inference, we discuss the identification and estimation of
treatment effects (TEs) under limited overlap; that is, when subjects with certain features …

Comprehensive Causal Machine Learning

M Lechner, J Mareckova - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.10198, 2024 - arxiv.org
Uncovering causal effects at various levels of granularity provides substantial value to
decision makers. Comprehensive machine learning approaches to causal effect estimation …

[HTML][HTML] Methods for integrating trials and non-experimental data to examine treatment effect heterogeneity

CL Brantner, TH Chang, TQ Nguyen… - Statistical science: a …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Estimating treatment effects conditional on observed covariates can improve the ability to
tailor treatments to particular individuals. Doing so effectively requires dealing with potential …

Shrinkage Bayesian causal forests for heterogeneous treatment effects estimation

A Caron, G Baio, I Manolopoulou - Journal of Computational and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article develops a sparsity-inducing version of Bayesian Causal Forests, a recently
proposed nonparametric causal regression model that employs Bayesian Additive …

Treatment heterogeneity with survival outcomes

Y Xu, N Ignatiadis, E Sverdrup, S Fleming… - … of Matching and …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter is accompanied by survlearners, a package that provides well-documented
implementations of the conditional average treatment effects (CATE) estimation strategies …

Understanding causal effects of ride-sourcing subsidy: A novel generative adversarial networks approach

N Xie, W Tang, J Zhu, J Li, XM Chen - Transportation Research Part C …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ride-sourcing platforms offer subsidies for drivers to ensure stable supply capacity for on-
demand ride services. These subsidies guarantee minimum surges in advance to help …

Bayesian causal forests for multivariate outcomes: application to Irish data from an international large scale education assessment

N McJames, A O'Shea, YC Goh… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Bayesian Causal Forests (BCF) is a causal inference machine learning model
based on the flexible non-parametric regression and classification tool, Bayesian Additive …