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Commentary on “Causal Decision Making and Causal Effect Estimation Are Not the Same…and Why It Matters”: On Loss Functions and Bias–Variance Tradeoffs in Causal Estimation and Decisions

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    (Sloan School of Management and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139)

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  • Dean Eckles, 2022. "Commentary on “Causal Decision Making and Causal Effect Estimation Are Not the Same…and Why It Matters”: On Loss Functions and Bias–Variance Tradeoffs in Causal Estimation and Decisions," INFORMS Joural on Data Science, INFORMS, vol. 1(1), pages 17-18, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orijds:v:1:y:2022:i:1:p:17-18
    DOI: 10.1287/ijds.2022.0012
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