Chapter 18 Machine learning approaches

There are now many machine learning based approaches, from DML to TMLE (where the ML does not in fact stand for ‘machine learning’!) In this section we will give a brief overview of some of the various methods that exist for this purpose.

Post-double selection (PDS)

Double/debiased machine learning

Causal forests

Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART)

Meta-learners