diff --git a/doc/spec/api.rst b/doc/spec/api.rst index 4d0391193..37c76e40c 100644 --- a/doc/spec/api.rst +++ b/doc/spec/api.rst @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Finally, some times we might not only be interested in the effect but also in th Our package does not offer support for counterfactual prediction. However, for most of our estimators (the ones assuming a linear-in-treatment model), counterfactual prediction can be easily constructed by combining any baseline predictive model with our causal effect model, i.e. train any machine learning model :math:`b(\vec{t}, \vec{x})` to solve the regression/classification -problem :math:`\E[Y | T=\vec{t}, X=\vec{x}]`, and then set :math:`\mu(vec{t}, \vec{x}) = \tau(\vec{t}, T, \vec{x}) + b(T, \vec{x})`, +problem :math:`\E[Y | T=\vec{t}, X=\vec{x}]`, and then set :math:`\mu(\vec{t}, \vec{x}) = \tau(\vec{t}, T, \vec{x}) + b(T, \vec{x})`, where :math:`T` is either the observed treatment for that sample under the observational policy or the treatment that the observational policy would have assigned to that sample. These auxiliary ML models can be trained with any machine learning package outside of EconML.