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Research methods
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Research code and methods
Heterogeneous treatment effects and causal ML toolkit
Source: GitHub / py-why/EconML
EconML collects causal ML methods for treatment effect estimation, policy learning, and applied econometric workflows in one reusable toolkit.
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