TSCI: two stage curvature identification for causal inference with invalid instruments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00513v1
• Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2023 11:12:53 GMT
• Title: TSCI: two stage curvature identification for causal inference with invalid instruments
• Authors: David Carl, Corinne Emmenegger, Peter B\"uhlmann, Zijian Guo
• Abstract summary: TSCI implements treatment effect estimation from observational data under invalid instruments in the R statistical computing environment. It does not require the classical instrumental variable identification conditions and is effective even if all instruments are invalid.
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• Abstract: TSCI implements treatment effect estimation from observational data under invalid instruments in the R statistical computing environment. Existing instrumental variable approaches rely on arguably strong and untestable identification assumptions, which limits their practical application. TSCI does not require the classical instrumental variable identification conditions and is effective even if all instruments are invalid. TSCI implements a two-stage algorithm. In the first stage, machine learning is used to cope with nonlinearities and interactions in the treatment model. In the second stage, a space to capture the instrument violations is selected in a data-adaptive way. These violations are then projected out to estimate the treatment effect.

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