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A Biologically Plausible Benchmark for Contextual Bandit Algorithms in Precision Oncology Using in vitro Data
Niklas T. Rindtorff, MingYu Lu, Nisarg A. Patel +2
Precision oncology, the genetic sequencing of tumors to identify druggable targets, has emerged as the standard of care in the treatment of many cancers. Nonetheless, due to the pa…
Comment: Reflections on the Deconfounder
Alexander D'Amour
The aim of this comment (set to appear in a formal discussion in JASA) is to draw out some conclusions from an extended back-and-forth I have had with Wang and Blei regarding the d…
Detecting Underspecification with Local Ensembles
David Madras, James Atwood, Alex D'Amour
We present local ensembles, a method for detecting underspecification -- when many possible predictors are consistent with the training data and model class -- at test time in a pr…
On Multi-Cause Causal Inference with Unobserved Confounding: Counterexamples, Impossibility, and Alternatives
Alexander D'Amour
Unobserved confounding is a central barrier to drawing causal inferences from observational data. Several authors have recently proposed that this barrier can be overcome in the ca…