Estimation of conditional average treatment effects on distributed confidential data
Estimation of conditional average treatment effects (CATEs) is an important topic in sciences. CATEs can be estimated with high accuracy if distributed data across multiple parties can be centralized. However, it is difficult to aggregate such data owing to confidential or privacy concerns. To address this issue, we proposed data collaboration double machine learning, a method that can estimate CATE models from privacy-preserving fusion data constructed from distributed data, and evaluated our method through simulations. Our contributions are summarized in the following three points. First, our method enables estimation and testing of semi-parametric CATE models without iterative communication on distributed data. Our semi-parametric CATE method enable estimation and testing that is more robust to model mis-specification than parametric methods. Second, our method enables collaborative estimation between multiple time points and different parties through the accumulation of a knowledge base. Third, our method performed equally or better than other methods in simulations using synthetic, semi-synthetic and real-world datasets.
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