Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Designing Transportable Experiments   We consider the problem of designing a randomized experiment on a source
population to estimate the Average Treatment Effect (ATE) on a target
population. We propose a novel approach which explicitly considers the target
when designing the experiment on the source. Under the covariate shift
assumption, we design an unbiased importance-weighted estimator for the target
population's ATE. To reduce the variance of our estimator, we design a
covariate balance condition (Target Balance) between the treatment and control
groups based on the target population. We show that Target Balance achieves a
higher variance reduction asymptotically than methods that do not consider the
target population during the design phase. Our experiments illustrate that
Target Balance reduces the variance even for small sample sizes.

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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th