Bayesian causal forests for multivariate outcomes: Application to Irish data from an international large scale education assessment

N McJames, A O'Shea, YC Goh… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Bayesian Causal Forests (BCF) is a causal inference machine learning model
based on the flexible non-parametric regression and classification tool, Bayesian Additive …

Bayesian Causal Forests & the 2022 ACIC Data Challenge: Scalability and Sensitivity

AH Kokandakar, H Kang, SK Deshpande - Observational Studies, 2023 - muse.jhu.edu
We demonstrate how Hahn et al.'s Bayesian Causal Forests model (BCF) can be used to
estimate conditional average treatment effects for the longitudinal dataset in the 2022 …

Shrinkage bayesian causal forests for heterogeneous treatment effects estimation

A Caron, G Baio, I Manolopoulou - Journal of Computational and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article develops a sparsity-inducing version of Bayesian Causal Forests, a recently
proposed nonparametric causal regression model that employs Bayesian Additive …

Stochastic tree ensembles for estimating heterogeneous effects

N Krantsevich, J He, PR Hahn - International Conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Determining subgroups that respond especially well (or poorly) to specific interventions
(medical or policy) requires new supervised learning methods tailored specifically for causal …

Random forests approach for causal inference with clustered observational data

Y Suk, H Kang, JS Kim - Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
There is a growing interest in using machine learning (ML) methods for causal inference due
to their (nearly) automatic and flexible ability to model key quantities such as the propensity …

Causal inference using Gaussian processes with structured latent confounders

S Witty, K Takatsu, D Jensen… - … on Machine Learning, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Latent confounders—unobserved variables that influence both treatment and outcome—can
bias estimates of causal effects. In some cases, these confounders are shared across …

Accounting for shared covariates in semi-parametric Bayesian additive regression trees

EB Prado, AC Parnell, K Murphy, N McJames… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We propose some extensions to semi-parametric models based on Bayesian additive
regression trees (BART). In the semi-parametric BART paradigm, the response variable is …

Tree-based bayesian treatment effect analysis

PHF Santos, HF Lopes - arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09507, 2018 - arxiv.org
The inclusion of the propensity score as a covariate in Bayesian regression trees for causal
inference can reduce the bias in treatment effect estimations, which occurs due to the …

Tuning random forests for causal inference under cluster-level unmeasured confounding

Y Suk, H Kang - Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, there has been growing interest in using machine learning methods for causal
inference due to their automatic and flexible ability to model the propensity score and the …

How do applied researchers use the Causal Forest? A methodological review of a method

P Rehill - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13356, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper conducts a methodological review of papers using the causal forest machine
learning method for flexibly estimating heterogeneous treatment effects. It examines 133 …