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arXiv 2408.09607stat.MEecon.EM
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通过优化视角进行因果推断的实验设计

Experimental Design For Causal Inference Through An Optimization Lens

Jinglong Zhao

AI总结:

本文从优化视角考察因果推断中实验设计的基础,将实验设计视为决策问题,利用现有优化工具提升实验效率,涵盖农业、临床、工业、社会及数字实验等广泛应用。

摘要:

实验设计的研究为回答各种应用中的因果问题提供了巨大益处,包括农业实验、临床试验、工业实验、社会实验和数字实验。尽管在此类应用中极具价值,但实验成本往往驱使实验者寻求更高效的设计。近期,实验者开始从优化视角审视此类效率问题,因为实验设计问题本质上是决策问题。该视角在利用各种现有优化工具研究实验设计问题时提供了极大灵活性。因此,本稿件旨在通过优化视角,考察因果推断背景下实验设计问题的基础。

英文摘要:

The study of experimental design offers tremendous benefits for answering causal questions across a wide range of applications, including agricultural experiments, clinical trials, industrial experiments, social experiments, and digital experiments. Although valuable in such applications, the costs of experiments often drive experimenters to seek more efficient designs. Recently, experimenters have started to examine such efficiency questions from an optimization perspective, as experimental design problems are fundamentally decision-making problems. This perspective offers a lot of flexibility in leveraging various existing optimization tools to study experimental design problems. This manuscript thus aims to examine the foundations of experimental design problems in the context of causal inference as viewed through an optimization lens.

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