Facilitating Heterogeneous Effect Estimation via Statistically Efficient Categorical Modifiers
通过统计高效的类别调节变量促进异质效应估计
Categorical covariates such as race, sex, or group are ubiquitous in regression analysis. While main-only (or ANCOVA) linear models are predominant, linear models that include categorical-continuous or categorical-categorical interactions are increasingly important and allow heterogeneous, group-specific effects. However, with standard approaches, the addition of categorical interactions fundamentally alters the estimates and interpretations of the main effects, often…