Optimal Prescriptive Trees

Motivated by personalized decision making, given observational data {(xi,yi,zi)}i=1n involving features xi∈Rd, assigned treatments or prescriptions zi∈{1,…,m}, and outcomes yi∈R, we propose a tree-...

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