DoubleML for Python and R

Tutorial: A state-of-the-art framework for double machine learning
Online Causal Inference Seminar, Stanford (virtual)

Philipp Bach1, Victor Chernozhukov2, Sven Klaassen1,3, Malte Kurz4, Martin Spindler1,3

1University of Hamburg, 2MIT, 3EconomicAI, 4Technical Unversity of Munich
April 18, 2023

DoubleML for Python and R



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