Robust Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects Under Limited Overlap
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重叠不足下平均处理效应的稳健置信区间
- 研究问题
- 在处理分配无混杂但协变量分布重叠不足时，为什么平均处理效应的传统置信区间会失真，如何改善局部样本很少时的推断？
- 方法与思路
- 作者将置信区间覆盖误差与重叠不足区域的局部样本量联系起来，并在经典小样本推断方法的基础上提出两种稳健置信区间。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称覆盖误差主要受局部样本量而非总样本量驱动；所提区间易于实施，并在具有实证相关性的设定中表现出更好的理论与实践性质。
- 阅读关注点
- 阅读全文时应核对无混杂假设、局部样本量的定义、两种区间的构造与覆盖保证，以及比较所覆盖的重叠程度和样本设定。
- 阅读边界
- 摘要讨论无混杂分配下的重叠不足，未说明具体区间公式、覆盖保证所需条件或数值证据，不能据此断言适用于所有弱重叠情形。
原文摘要
Robust Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects under Limited Overlap *Estimators of average treatment effects under unconfounded treatment assignment are known to become rather imprecise if there is limited overlap in the covariate distributions between the treatment groups.But such limited overlap can also have a detrimental effect on inference, and lead for example to highly distorted confidence intervals.This paper shows that this is because the coverage error of traditional confidence intervals is not so much driven by the total sample size, but by the number of observations in the areas of limited overlap.At least some of these "local sample sizes" are often very small in applications, up to the point where distributional approximation derived from the Central Limit Theorem become unreliable.Building on this observation, the paper proposes two new robust confidence intervals that are extensions of classical approaches to small sample inference.It shows that these approaches are easy to implement, and have superior theoretical and practical properties relative to standard methods in empirically relevant settings.They should thus be useful for practitioners.