no code implementations • 28 Feb 2022 • Martin Cousineau, Vedat Verter, Susan A. Murphy, Joelle Pineau
In the absence of randomized controlled and natural experiments, it is necessary to balance the distributions of (observable) covariates of the treated and control groups in order to obtain an unbiased estimate of a causal effect of interest; otherwise, a different effect size may be estimated, and incorrect recommendations may be given.
no code implementations • 14 Nov 2019 • Nicholas D. Kullman, Jorge E. Mendoza, Martin Cousineau, Justin C. Goodson
We present a new general approach to modeling research problems as Atari-like videogames to make them amenable to recent groundbreaking solution methods from the deep reinforcement learning community.