featurebyte.AssignmentSource

class AssignmentSource( )

Description

High-level source of treatement assignment. Determines identification strategy

Possible Values

• RANDOMIZED
  Treatment assigned by explicit randomization
  
  
• OBSERVATIONAL
  Treatment chosen by behavior or business process
  
  
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Treatment is endogenous but there exists an exogenous instrument Z
  
  
• QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL
  Identification from natural experiments (RD, DiD, staggered adoption)
  
  
• ADAPTIVE
  Assignment depends on previous outcomes (bandits, RL, dynamic policies)