A New and Efficient Debiased Estimation of General Treatment Models by Balanced Neural Networks Weighting
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平衡神经网络加权下的一般治疗模型去偏高效估计
- 研究问题
- 在无混杂治疗分配和高维协变量下，如何兼顾协变量平衡、去偏推断与计算可行性，并适用于多种治疗类型及效应目标？
- 方法与思路
- 作者结合深度神经网络与校准加权，处理离散、连续及混合治疗下的均值、分位数和分布效应，并用加权 bootstrap 推断。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，正则条件下估计量具有速率双重稳健性、根号样本量渐近正态性及半参数效率，模拟和应用展示了小样本表现。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对神经网络近似与训练误差、校准约束、速率条件及治疗支持范围，并检查加权 bootstrap 对各类效应的有效性。
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- 这是 arXiv 预印本，同行评审或期刊接收未核实；摘要未列出正则条件，模拟中的优势不能视为所有数据结构下的保证。
原文摘要
Estimation and inference of treatment effects under unconfounded treatment assignments often suffer from bias and the `curse of dimensionality' due to the nonparametric estimation of nuisance parameters for high-dimensional confounders. Although debiased state-of-the-art methods have been proposed for binary treatments under particular treatment models, they can be unstable for small sample sizes. Moreover, directly extending them to general treatment models can lead to computational complexity. We propose a balanced neural networks weighting method for general treatment models, which leverages deep neural networks to alleviate the curse of dimensionality while retaining optimal covariate balance through calibration, thereby achieving debiased and robust estimation. Our method accommodates a wide range of treatment models, including average, quantile, distributional, and asymmetric least squares treatment effects, for discrete, continuous, and mixed treatments. Under regularity conditions, we show that our estimator achieves rate double robustness and $\sqrt{N}$-asymptotic normality, and its asymptotic variance achieves the semiparametric efficiency bound. We further develop a statistical inference procedure based on weighted bootstrap, which avoids estimating the efficient influence/score functions. Simulation results reveal that the proposed method consistently outperforms existing alternatives, especially when the sample size is small. Applications to the 401(k) dataset and the Mother's Significant Features dataset further illustrate the practical value of the method for estimating both average and quantile treatment effects under binary and continuous treatments, respectively.