Cross-Fitted Survey-Weighted TMLE with Design-Based Variance for Causal Machine Learning
具有设计型方差的交叉拟合调查加权 TMLE
Cross-fitting is not a refinement of survey-weighted causal machine learning but, once the nuisances are flexible, what restores valid inference. We study the population average treatment effect under a stratified multistage design, estimated by a survey-aware targeted maximum likelihood estimator (TMLE) whose variance is obtained by Taylor-series linearization of the influence function, treating the primary sampling unit as the replication unit. Our central result is that…