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Output the intercept value in CausalForestDML

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Dear EconML team,

I am recently using EconML library for my research project in materials science and I am mainly using the framework of double machine learning to estimate heterogenous treatment effects.

One thing I am doing is to estimate y values of new data by adding E[Y|X], theta(X)*(T-E[T|X]), and beta(X) together. I learned that beta(X), the intercept, is by default fitted in the final casual forest model. However, I didn't find a method belonging to CausalForestDML to output that value for different Xs.

I am wondering if the intercept is hidden somewhere and how to output that.

Thanks in advance.

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Start at the CausalForestDML entry point and trace how the fitted final causal forest stores or computes the intercept for different X values. Determine the API change needed to expose that value, and consider how completion would verify that users can retrieve it for new data.

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Tech stack
python
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machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
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4/5
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3-5 days
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