Quantifying individual risk for binary outcomes
二元结局下的个体风险量化
Abstract Understanding treatment effect heterogeneity is crucial for reliable decision-making in treatment evaluation and selection. The conditional average treatment effect (CATE) is widely used to capture treatment effect heterogeneity induced by observed covariates and to design individualized treatment policies. However, it is an average metric within subpopulations, which prevents it from revealing individual risk, potentially leading to misleading results. This article…