Estimating Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Psychiatry: A Review and Tutorial With Causal Forests.

Journal: International journal of methods in psychiatric research
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Flexible machine learning tools are increasingly used to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects.

Authors

  • Erik Sverdrup
    Department of Econometrics & Business Statistics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Maria Petukhova
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Stefan Wager
    Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.