sanity check whether the input data contains duplicated entities

[jbao]

The ExperimentData class can handle 2 kinds of input data as the metrics argument:

• aggregated metrics: this should always be aggregated on the entity level
• time-resolved metrics: this requires an additional column time_since_treatment in the input, and should always be aggregated per unique entity and time point

[piyush0609]

I am willing to work on this. Maybe you can explain a bit more.

[jbao]

hey @piyush0609 , glad that you volunteered, just added some description, feel free to reach out if it's still unclear;-)

[piyush0609]

So what do we want to do here @jbao, from your comment earlier what I understood is that we have to make some changes in time_resolved metrics.

[jbao]

basically we need to distinguish the two metric types:

• if aggregated, we need to add a checkpoint to ensure all entities are unique
• if time-resolved, we need to ensure the data is unique based on the combination of entity and time

[piyush0609]

I am not sure that I can do it, but I will definitely try and I will be needing your help.