Addressing Positivity Violations in Causal Effect Estimation using Gaussian Process Priors
利用高斯过程先验处理因果效应估计中的正值性违反
In observational studies, causal inference relies on several key identifying assumptions. One identifiability condition is the positivity assumption, which requires the probability of treatment be bounded away from 0 and 1. That is, for every covariate combination, it should be possible to observe both treated and control subjects, i.e., the covariate distributions should overlap between treatment arms. If the positivity assumption is violated, population-level causal…