arXiv 18 Aug 2024 · Statistics — Methodology · 1 citations (OpenAlex)
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The study of experimental design offers tremendous benefits for answering causal questions across a wide range of applications, including agricultural experiments, clinical trials, industrial experiments, social experiments, and digital experiments. Although valuable in such applications, the costs of experiments often drive experimenters to seek more efficient designs. Recently, experimenters have started to examine such efficiency questions from an optimization perspective, as experimental design problems are fundamentally decision-making problems. This perspective offers a lot of flexibility in leveraging various existing optimization tools to study experimental design problems. This manuscript thus aims to examine the foundations of experimental design problems in the context of causal inference as viewed through an optimization lens.
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