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Main Authors: Hashimoto, Naoya, Kawakami, Yuta, Tian, Jin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18762
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author Hashimoto, Naoya
Kawakami, Yuta
Tian, Jin
author_facet Hashimoto, Naoya
Kawakami, Yuta
Tian, Jin
contents Evaluating joint probabilities of potential outcomes and observed variables, and their linear combinations, is a fundamental challenge in causal inference. This paper addresses the bounding and identification of these probabilities in settings with discrete treatment and discrete ordinal outcome. We propose new families of monotonicity assumptions and formulate the bounding problem as a linear programming problem. We further introduce a new monotonicity assumption specifically to achieve identification. Finally, we present numerical experiments to validate our methods and demonstrate their application using real-world datasets.
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spellingShingle Bounds and Identification of Joint Probabilities of Potential Outcomes and Observed Variables under Monotonicity Assumptions
Hashimoto, Naoya
Kawakami, Yuta
Tian, Jin
Machine Learning
Evaluating joint probabilities of potential outcomes and observed variables, and their linear combinations, is a fundamental challenge in causal inference. This paper addresses the bounding and identification of these probabilities in settings with discrete treatment and discrete ordinal outcome. We propose new families of monotonicity assumptions and formulate the bounding problem as a linear programming problem. We further introduce a new monotonicity assumption specifically to achieve identification. Finally, we present numerical experiments to validate our methods and demonstrate their application using real-world datasets.
title Bounds and Identification of Joint Probabilities of Potential Outcomes and Observed Variables under Monotonicity Assumptions
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18762