Let Time Tell: Identification and Gaussian Process Estimation for Interrupted Time Series
让时间提供信息:中断时间序列的识别与高斯过程估计
We study causal inference in interrupted time series designs where a treatment affects every unit simultaneously, so that the contemporaneous controls used by difference-in-differences and synthetic control are unavailable and the counterfactual must be extrapolated from a unit's own pre-treatment history. We establish identification within the potential outcomes framework and estimate the counterfactual by Gaussian process regression. Rather than committing to a single…