FUNCTIONAL SEQUENTIAL TREATMENT ALLOCATION WITH COVARIATES
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چکیده
We consider a sequential treatment problem with covariates. Given realization of the covariate vector, instead targeting highest conditional expectation, decision-maker targets which maximizes general functional potential outcome distribution, e.g., quantile, trimmed mean, or socioeconomic such as an inequality, welfare, poverty measure. develop expected regret lower bounds for this and construct near minimax optimal assignment policy.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Econometric Theory
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1469-4360', '0266-4666']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266466623000051