Quantifying and Explaining Causal Effects of World Bank Aid Projects

In recent years, machine learning methods have enabled us to predict with good precision using large training data, such as deep learning. However, for many problems, we care more about causality than prediction. For example, instead of knowing that smoking is statistically associated with lung canc...

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Main Author: Zhao, Jianing Simulation
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: W&M ScholarWorks 2018
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153907
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6579&context=etd