Inference on Causal Effects of Interventions in Time using Gaussian Processes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02850v1
• Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 12:10:57 GMT
• Title: Inference on Causal Effects of Interventions in Time using Gaussian Processes
• Authors: Gianluca Giudice, Sara Geneletti and Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos
• Abstract summary: This paper focuses on drawing inference on the causal impact of an intervention at a specific time point. We operate on the interrupted time series framework and expand on approaches such as the synthetic control. The developed models possess a high degree of flexibility posing very little limitations on the functional form.
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• Abstract: This paper focuses on drawing inference on the causal impact of an intervention at a specific time point, as manifested in an outcome variable over time. We operate on the interrupted time series framework and expand on approaches such as the synthetic control (Abadie 2003) and Bayesian structural time series (Brodersen et al 2015), by replacing the underlying dynamic linear regression model with a non-parametric formulation based on Gaussian Processes. The developed models possess a high degree of flexibility posing very little limitations on the functional form and allow to incorporate uncertainty, stemming from its estimation, under the Bayesian framework. We introduce two families of non-parametric structural time series models either operating on the trajectory of the outcome variable alone, or in a multivariate setting using multiple output Gaussian processes. The paper engages closely with a case study focusing on the impact of the accelerated UK vaccination schedule, as contrasted with the rest of Europe, to illustrate the methodology and present the implementation procedure.

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