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  • Statistics
  • Biostatistics
  • Econometrics

Background:

  • Personalized treatment requires understanding how treatment effects vary across individuals (CATE).
  • Estimating CATE from observational data is challenging due to multivariate confounders and the curse of dimensionality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a robust method for inferring CATE from observational data.
  • To address the curse of dimensionality while retaining nonparametric advantages.

Main Methods:

  • Propose double dimension reduction: identifying the central mean subspace of CATE and using nonparametric regression with prior dimension reduction for counterfactual imputation.
  • Establish asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator considering the two-step double dimension reduction.
  • Develop an effective bootstrapping procedure for valid inferences without bootstrapping the estimated central mean subspace.

Main Results:

  • The proposed double dimension reduction method effectively reduces dimensionality.
  • The imputation of counterfactual outcomes is stabilized.
  • Asymptotic properties are established, and a valid bootstrapping procedure is proposed.
  • Simulations and applications demonstrate superior performance compared to existing methods.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method offers a robust and efficient approach for CATE estimation from observational data.
  • This facilitates more accurate personalized treatment strategies.
  • The methodology addresses key challenges in high-dimensional causal inference.