Categorical outcome support

[rachaelvp]

Does tmle3 support categorical outcomes? If not, can this be intercepted and and produce an error before fitting SL?

[jeremyrcoyle]

No parameters have been implemented that support categorical outcomes, but it’d be trivial to implement ATE or TSM generalizations for them. There’s nothing stopping you from fitting a likelihood with categorical nodes. The likelihood model doesn’t really have a concept of an outcome. That’s all up to the parameters.

I’m not sure where you could add a data type check as you’re suggesting.