Calibrated and Conformal Propensity Scores for Causal Effect Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00382v2
• Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 21:40:48 GMT
• Title: Calibrated and Conformal Propensity Scores for Causal Effect Estimation
• Authors: Shachi Deshpande, Volodymyr Kuleshov,
• Abstract summary: We argue that the probabilistic output of a learned propensity score model should be calibrated. Calibrated propensity scores improve the speed of GWAS analysis by more than two-fold.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Propensity scores are commonly used to estimate treatment effects from observational data. We argue that the probabilistic output of a learned propensity score model should be calibrated -- i.e., a predictive treatment probability of 90% should correspond to 90% of individuals being assigned the treatment group -- and we propose simple recalibration techniques to ensure this property. We prove that calibration is a necessary condition for unbiased treatment effect estimation when using popular inverse propensity weighted and doubly robust estimators. We derive error bounds on causal effect estimates that directly relate to the quality of uncertainties provided by the probabilistic propensity score model and show that calibration strictly improves this error bound while also avoiding extreme propensity weights. We demonstrate improved causal effect estimation with calibrated propensity scores in several tasks including high-dimensional image covariates and genome-wide association studies (GWASs). Calibrated propensity scores improve the speed of GWAS analysis by more than two-fold by enabling the use of simpler models that are faster to train.

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