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	機械学習を援用した感度分析による因果推論	合成対照法（SCM）
分野	因果推論	因果推論
系統	Regression model	Regression model
提唱年	2018-2020	2010
提唱者	Cinelli & Hazlett (sensitivity framework); Chernozhukov et al. (ML augmentation for causal estimation)	Abadie, Diamond & Hainmueller
種類	Sensitivity analysis / causal robustness assessment	Counterfactual causal-inference model
原典	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.	Abadie, A., Diamond, A., & Hainmueller, J. (2010). Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105(490), 493-505.
別名	ML-augmented sensitivity analysis, ML sensitivity analysis for causality, machine learning sensitivity analysis, debiased ML sensitivity analysis	synthetic control method, SCM, synthetic counterfactual, Sentetik Kontrol Yöntemi (SCM)
関連	5	5
概要	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.	The Synthetic Control Method, introduced by Abadie, Diamond and Hainmueller in 2010, builds a weighted counterfactual for a single treated unit from a pool of untreated donor units. It is widely regarded as the gold standard for evaluating large policy interventions, natural experiments, and N=1 case studies where no obvious comparison unit exists.