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	Analisi di Sensibilità Potenziata dal Machine Learning per la Causalità	Metodo delle Variabili Strumentali (IV) per l'Inferenza Causale
Campo	Inferenza causale	Economia sanitaria
Famiglia	Regression model	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2018-2020	1990s (modern applications)
Ideatore	Cinelli & Hazlett (sensitivity framework); Chernozhukov et al. (ML augmentation for causal estimation)	Angrist & Pischke (applied econometrics); rooted in econometric theory
Tipo	Sensitivity analysis / causal robustness assessment	Method
Fonte seminale	Cinelli, C., & Hazlett, C. (2020). Making sense of sensitivity: extending omitted variable bias. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 82(1), 39-67.	Angrist, J. D., & Pischke, J. S. (2009). Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Alias	ML-augmented sensitivity analysis, ML sensitivity analysis for causality, machine learning sensitivity analysis, debiased ML sensitivity analysis	IV, two-stage least squares, TSLS, causal estimation
Correlati	5	3
Sintesi	Machine learning-augmented sensitivity analysis combines flexible ML estimators with formal robustness checks to assess how much unmeasured confounding would be required to overturn a causal finding. Rooted in Chernozhukov et al.'s double/debiased ML framework and Cinelli and Hazlett's omitted-variable-bias sensitivity tools, it delivers both high-dimensional covariate adjustment and transparent communication of remaining uncertainty about unobserved confounders.	Instrumental variables (IV) is an econometric method to estimate causal effects when treatment or exposure is not randomly assigned and confounding is severe or unmeasured. IV relies on a third variable (instrument) that influences treatment but does not directly affect the outcome, allowing researchers to isolate the causal effect from the noise of confounding. Developed extensively in econometrics (Angrist & Pischke, 1990s–2000s), IV methods are increasingly used in health economics and health services research to leverage natural experiments and policy changes.