Causal Effects via Propensity Scores | Introduction & Python Code
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This is the 2nd video in a series on causal effects. Here I introduce the Propensity Score and discuss 3 ways we can use it to compute causal effects from observational data. At the end, I share a concrete example with code of what using these methods might look like in practice.
๐ Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz-ep5RbHosVVTz9HEzpI4d6xpWsc8rOa
๐ฐ Read more: https://medium.com/towards-data-science/propensity-score-5c29c480130c?sk=45f0ec6803eba962c0d2d0162185741d
๐ป Example Code: https://github.com/ShawhinT/YouTube-Blog/tree/main/causality/propensity_score
Resources:
- An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies by Peter C. Austin
- Data from UCI MLR: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/census+income
Introduction - 0:00
Observational vs Interventional Studies - 0:32
Propensity Score - 3:25
3 Propensity Score-based Methods - 4:56
1) Matching - 5:18
2) Stratification - 9:07
3) Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting - 10:37
Example: ATE of Grad on Income - 12:29
Word of Caution - 15:46
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