Covariate Balancing Methods for Randomized Controlled Trials Are Not Adversarially Robust
随机对照试验协变量平衡方法的对抗鲁棒性局限
The first step towards investigating the effectiveness of a treatment via a randomized trial is to split the population into control and treatment groups then compare the average response of the treatment group receiving the treatment to the control group receiving the placebo. In order to ensure that the difference between the two groups is caused only by the treatment, it is crucial that the control and the treatment groups have similar statistics. Indeed, the validity and…