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Treatment heterogeneity with right-censored outcomes using grf

Computation 2024-02-27 v3 Applications Methodology

Abstract

This article walks through how to estimate conditional average treatment effects (CATEs) with right-censored time-to-event outcomes using the function causal_survival_forest (Cui et al., 2023) in the R package grf (Athey et al., 2019, Tibshirani et al., 2024) using data from the National Job Training Partnership Act.

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@article{arxiv.2312.02482,
  title  = {Treatment heterogeneity with right-censored outcomes using grf},
  author = {Erik Sverdrup and Stefan Wager},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.02482},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Software review article prepared for January 2024 ASA Lifetime Data Science newsletter