Date of Original Version
2001
Type
Conference Proceeding
Published In
Proceedings of Eighth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Morgan Kauffman.
Abstract or Table of Contents
Instrumental Variable (IV) estimation is a powerful strategy for estimating causal influence, even in the presence of confounding. Standard IV estimation requires that the relationships between variables is linear. Here we relax the linearity requirement by constructing a piecewise linear IV estimator. Simulation studies show that when the causal influence of X on Y is non-linear, the piecewise linear is an improvement.