Evaluating Policy Effects under Network Interference without Network Information: A Transfer Learning Approach
未知网络下的干扰政策效应评估:迁移学习方法
This paper develops a sensitivity analysis framework that transfers the average total treatment effect (ATTE) from source data with a fully observed network to target data whose network is completely unknown. The ATTE represents the average social impact of a policy that assigns the treatment to every individual in the dataset. We postulate a covariate-shift type assumption that both source and target datasets share the same conditional mean outcome. However, because the…