Double Machine Learning and Automated Confounder Selection -- A Cautionary Tale
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- Hünermund Paul & Louw Beyers & Caspi Itamar, 2023. "Double machine learning and automated confounder selection: A cautionary tale," Journal of Causal Inference, De Gruyter, vol. 11(1), pages 1-12, January.
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