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Why we can use E[T|X, W, Z] as the instrument in DRIV/OrthoIV approaches?

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I am not sure why it is reasonable to use E[T|X, W, Z] as the Z in DRIV/OrthoIV. Is there any paper I can refer to? Also, In my simulation, it seems that we need to perform this projection when the instrument is weak (i.e., a small correlation between T and Z). I wonder whether the weak instrument case is the case for which the projection approach is designed?

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python
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machine-learning
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