Autor: Delbianco Fernando, Tohmé Fernando
Institución: Departamento de Economía, Universidad Nacional del Sur; INMABB-CONICET
Año: 2023
JEL: C4, C1
Resumen:
Individualized inference (or prediction) is an approach to data analysis that is increasingly relevant thanks to the availability of large datasets. In this paper, we present an algorithm that starts by detecting the relevant observations for a given query. Further refinement of that subsample is obtained by selecting the ones with the largest Shapley values. The probability distribution over this selection allows to generate synthetic controls, which in turn can be used to generate a robust inference (or prediction). Data collected from repeating this procedure for different queries provides a deeper understanding of the general process that generates the data.