Before revision:  Compared to the average treatment effect (ATE) that solely relies on the covariate distribution of collected data, WTE is robust to unanticipated covariate shifts, and ensures positive findings guarantee uniformly valid treatment effects over underrepresented minority groups .
After revision:  Compared to the average treatment effect (ATE) , whose validity relies on the covariate distribution of collected data, WTE is robust to unanticipated covariate shifts, and ensures positive findings guarantee uniformly valid treatment effects over underrepresented minority groups .