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Parameter tuning for Policy Learning

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I would like to start off by saying good job on coming up with the Econml package. It has definitely been a useful tool to my data science toolkit. I have one question about the policy learning models that I was hoping to get some clarification on.
For the policy learning models available in econml (DRPolicyForest, DRPolicyTree, etc), I noticed that there is no score method available. My question is, how am I able to determine the best parameters eg, max_depth, n_estimators in the case of PolicyForest, if there is no score for me to evaluate against? Is there another way to determine the right parameter values?

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Review the policy learning models named in the issue, including DRPolicyForest and DRPolicyTree, and their max_depth and n_estimators parameters. Determine how parameter selection should be evaluated when no score method is available; the issue does not name specific files or tests, so completion criteria would need to be established first.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
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Over a week
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Stale
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Needs clarification
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30/100

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