Wrong ATE estimation result, expected positive ATE got negative ATE
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Hi,
I am fitting a DML model to my data, and I know the ATE of my treatment is positive, but the model gives me the negative result. I am wondering why this happened and how can I explain this? Is there any way to fix this wrong estimation?
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- Tech stack
- python
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- machine-learning
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 5/5
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