Using propensity scores to estimate effects of treatment initiation decisions: state of the science

M Webster‐Clark, T Stürmer, T Wang… - Statistics in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Confounding can cause substantial bias in nonexperimental studies that aim to estimate
causal effects. Propensity score methods allow researchers to reduce bias from measured …

Matching methods for confounder adjustment: an addition to the epidemiologist's toolbox

N Greifer, EA Stuart - Epidemiologic reviews, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Propensity score weighting and outcome regression are popular ways to adjust for observed
confounders in epidemiologic research. Here, we provide an introduction to matching …

The blessings of multiple causes

Y Wang, DM Blei - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Causal inference from observational data is a vital problem, but it comes with strong
assumptions. Most methods assume that we observe all confounders, variables that affect …

Propensity score weighting for causal inference with multiple treatments

F Li, F Li - 2019 - projecteuclid.org
Supplement to “Propensity score weighting for causal inference with multiple treatments”.
Supplement A: On Transitivity. We provide a detailed discussion on transitivity of the target …

Propensity score stratification methods for continuous treatments

DW Brown, TJ Greene, MD Swartz… - Statistics in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Continuous treatments propensity scoring remains understudied as the majority of methods
are focused on the binary treatment setting. Current propensity score methods for …

Causal effect estimation: Recent progress, challenges, and opportunities

Z Chu, S Li - Machine Learning for Causal Inference, 2023 - Springer
Causal inference has numerous real-world applications in many domains, such as health
care, marketing, political science, and online advertising. Treatment effect estimation, a …

Counterfactual prediction for bundle treatment

H Zou, P Cui, B Li, Z Shen, J Ma… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Estimating counterfactual outcome of different treatments from observational data is an
important problem to assist decision making in a variety of fields. Among the various forms of …

Causal effect inference for structured treatments

J Kaddour, Y Zhu, Q Liu… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We address the estimation of conditional average treatment effects (CATEs) for structured
treatments (eg, graphs, images, texts). Given a weak condition on the effect, we propose the …

Association between treatment with apixaban, dabigatran, rivaroxaban, or warfarin and risk for osteoporotic fractures among patients with atrial fibrillation: a …

WCY Lau, CL Cheung, KKC Man, EW Chan… - Annals of internal …, 2020 - acpjournals.org
Background: It is unclear whether anticoagulant type is associated with the risk for
osteoporotic fracture, a deleterious complication of anticoagulants among patients with atrial …

Aligning information technology and business: The differential effects of alignment during investment planning, delivery, and change

TJV Saldanha, D Lee, S Mithas - Information Systems …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
When does information technology (IT)–business alignment matter most for leveraging IT
investment for firm performance? Drawing on dynamic capabilities theory, we posit that firms …