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Randomized treatment identifies the target mean contrast
Example
Take with the uniform law. Let and be the first and second coordinates, let be constant, and set , , and . Then random assignment is independent of the potential outcomes, both treatment values have probability , and the target ATE is . The conditional means among the two treatment groups recover the same contrast.
Verification
Given: The finite probability space above; the definitions of potential outcomes and consistency, conditional exchangeability, positivity, and ATE; and the discrete-treatment identification theorem.
[A1] Choice is the axiom used by the library's conditional-expectation convention. The Axiom of Choice
[F1] Potential outcomes are indexed by treatment versions and consistency means almost surely. Potential outcomes and consistency
[F2] Conditional exchangeability is conditional independence of the potential-outcome family and given . Conditional exchangeability of potential outcomes
[F3] Conditional independence given the trivial sigma-algebra is ordinary independence, using the bounded-product identity. Conditional independence given a sigma-algebra
[F4] Positivity requires positive marginal and conditional probability for each treatment value in the contrast. Positivity for discrete treatment
[F5] The ATE is . Average and conditional average treatment effects
[F6] Under consistency, conditional exchangeability and positivity, the potential-outcome mean equals the target-covariate integral of the observed treatment-stratum mean. Discrete-treatment potential-outcome means are identifiable
Each of the four points has probability . By definition , so consistency [F1] holds; are bounded and hence integrable.
For , . The pair is a function of , so it is independent of ; since is constant, [F2] and [F3] give conditional exchangeability. Also , and conditioning on constant leaves these probabilities unchanged, so [F4] holds.
Under , remains uniform and , so . Under , remains uniform and , so . As is a point mass, [F6] gives and ; hence the identified ATE is , agreeing with [F5].
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