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Make the intent-to-treat terminology clearer (#1020)
* Make the intent-to-treat terminology clearer Signed-off-by: Joon Ro <joon.ro@outlook.com> Co-authored-by: Keith Battocchi <kbattocchi@gmail.com>
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notebooks/CustomerScenarios/Case Study - Recommendation AB Testing at An Online Travel Company.ipynb

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"A direct A/B test is infeasible because the website cannot force users to become members. Likewise, the travel company can’t look directly at existing data, comparing members and non-members, because the customers who chose to become members are likely already more engaged than other users. \n",
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"**Solution:** The company had run an earlier experiment to test the value of a new, faster sign-up process. EconML's IV estimators can exploit this experimental nudge towards membership as an instrument that generates random variation in the likelihood of membership. This is known as an **intent-to-treat** setting: the intention is to give a random group of user the \"treatment\" (access to the easier sign-up process), but not not all users will actually take it. \n",
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"**Solution:** The company had run an earlier experiment to test the value of a new, faster sign-up process. EconML's IV estimators can exploit this experimental nudge towards membership as an instrument that generates random variation in the likelihood of membership. This is known as an **intent-to-treat** setting: the intention is to give a random group of users the \"treatment\" (membership sign-up), but not all users will actually take it. \n",
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"EconML's `IntentToTreatDRIV` estimator model takes advantage of the fact that not every customer who was offered the easier sign-up became a member to learn the effect of membership rather than the effect of receiving the quick sign-up."
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