ATE

Units & Measurements abbreviation · Statistics

ATE
Stands forAverage treatment effect
CategoriesUnits & Measurements

ATE stands for Average treatment effect, a statistics abbreviation.

The average difference in outcomes between receiving and not receiving a treatment across a whole population, the central quantity in causal inference. Randomized experiments estimate it by comparing group means.

Example: The job-training program had an ATE of $1,200 in annual earnings.

Usage notes

Related quantities include the ATT (average treatment effect on the treated) and CATE (conditional average treatment effect for subgroups). Donald Rubin's potential outcomes framework defines these effects formally. Observational studies estimate the ATE with methods such as propensity scores and matching.

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