A vocabulary of causal inference testing
I was having a clear-out and I came across a printout of some notes I made a while back. It was a list of terms used in causal inference testing. At the time, I used it as a checklist or dictionary to ensure I knew what I was talking about - a kind of RCT bingo if you like.
(Myriam Thomas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
I thought I would post it here in case anyone wants to play the same game. Do you know what all these terms mean? Are there key terms I've missed off my list?
- ATE - Average Treatment Effect
- CATE - Conditional Average Treatment Effect
- Counterfactual
- DAG - Directed Acyclic Graph
- Dynamic Treatment Effect
- Epsilon greedy
- Estimands
- External and internal validity
- Heterogeneity (treatment effect heterogeneity)
- Homophily
- Instrumental Variable (IV)
- LATE - Local Average Treatment Effect
- Logit model
- RCT - Randomized Control Trial
- Regret
- Salience
- Spillover
- Stationary effect (and it's opposite non-stationary effect)
- Surrogate
- SUTVA - Stable Unit Treatment Value Assumption
- Thompson sampling
- Treatment effect heterogeneity
- Wald estimator