Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Bounding the Effects of Continuous Treatments for Hidden Confounders   Causal inference involves the disentanglement of effects due to a treatment
variable from those of confounders, observed as covariates or not. Since one
outcome is ever observed at a time, the problem turns into one of predicting
counterfactuals on every individual in the dataset. Observational studies
complicate this endeavor by permitting dependencies between the treatment and
other variables in the sample. If the covariates influence the propensity of
treatment, then one suffers from covariate shift. Should the outcome and the
treatment be affected by another variable even after accounting for the
covariates, there is also hidden confounding. That is immeasurable by
definition. Rather, one must study the worst possible consequences of bounded
levels of hidden confounding on downstream decision-making. We explore this
problem in the case of continuous treatments. We develop a framework to compute
ignorance intervals on the partially identified dose-response curves, which
enable us to quantify the susceptibility of our inference to hidden
confounders. Our method is supported by simulations as well as empirical tests
based on two observational studies.

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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc