Some notes for Casual Inference

Ref: https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/=stat700/Lecture22.pdf Counterfactual and . is the potential outcome if an individual were treated. is the potential outcome if an individual were not treated. is the observed outcome:     which means: From , we have . Therefore in general. Note that is an unobserved counterfactual. For example, if represents whether an individual receives a…

Pytorch cpp extension not working

When playing with https://github.com/happy-jihye/Cartoon-StyleGAN, PyTorch CPP extension does not work out of the box. Running under docker at least let me import the module. Update:It seems that gcc-11 causing the problem. Using gcc-10 seems to work. But I need to modify environment variables explicitly.

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