Revealing the Truth: Calculating True Values in Causal Inference Simulation Studies via Gaussian Quadrature
用高斯求积计算因果推断模拟研究中的真实目标值
Simulation studies are used to understand the properties of statistical methods. A key luxury in many simulation studies is knowledge of the true value (i.e. the estimand) being targeted. With this oracle knowledge in-hand, the researcher conducting the simulation study can assess across repeated realizations of the data how well a given method recovers the truth. In causal inference simulation studies, the truth is rarely a simple parameter of the statistical model chosen…