期刊
STATISTICAL SCIENCE
卷 34, 期 1, 页码 43-68出版社
INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS-IMS
DOI: 10.1214/18-STS667
关键词
Causal inference; competition; machine learning; automated algorithms; evaluation
资金
- Institute of Education Sciences [R305D110037, R305B120017]
Statisticians have made great progress in creating methods that reduce our reliance on parametric assumptions. However, this explosion in research has resulted in a breadth of inferential strategies that both create opportunities for more reliable inference as well as complicate the choices that an applied researcher has to make and defend. Relatedly, researchers advocating for new methods typically compare their method to at best 2 or 3 other causal inference strategies and test using simulations that may or may not be designed to equally tease out flaws in all the competing methods. The causal inference data analysis challenge, Is Your SATT Where It's At?, launched as part of the 2016 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference, sought to make progress with respect to both of these issues. The researchers creating the data testing grounds were distinct from the researchers submitting methods whose efficacy would be evaluated. Results from 30 competitors across the two versions of the competition (black-box algorithms and do-it-yourself analyses) are presented along with post-hoc analyses that reveal information about the characteristics of causal inference strategies and settings that affect performance. The most consistent conclusion was that methods that flexibly model the response surface perform better overall than methods that fail to do so. Finally new methods are proposed that combine features of several of the top-performing submitted methods.
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