Heterogeneity of benefit from earlier time-to-antibiotics for sepsis

RK Hechtman, P Kipnis, J Cano, S Seelye… - American Journal of …, 2024 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Shorter time-to-antibiotics improves survival from sepsis, particularly among
patients in shock. There may be other subgroups for whom faster antibiotics are particularly …

Retrospective cohort study to devise a treatment decision score predicting adverse 24-month radiological activity in early multiple sclerosis

A Hapfelmeier, BI On, M Mühlau… - Therapeutic …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neuroinflammatory disease affecting about
2.8 million people worldwide. Disease course after the most common diagnoses of relapsing …

Harnessing heterogeneity in behavioural research using computational social science

GA Veltri - Behavioural Public Policy, 2023 - cambridge.org
Similarly to other domains of the social sciences, behavioural science has grappled with a
crisis concerning the effect sizes of research findings. Different solutions have been …

Comparison of methods that combine multiple randomized trials to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects

CL Brantner, TQ Nguyen, T Tang, C Zhao… - Statistics in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Individualized treatment decisions can improve health outcomes, but using data to make
these decisions in a reliable, precise, and generalizable way is challenging with a single …

How do applied researchers use the Causal Forest? A methodological review of a method

P Rehill - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13356, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper conducts a methodological review of papers using the causal forest machine
learning method for flexibly estimating heterogeneous treatment effects. It examines 133 …

Heterogeneity within the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: An application of causal forests

Z Hattab, E Doherty, AM Ryan, S O'Neill - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Existing evidence regarding the effects of Medicaid expansion, largely focused on
aggregate effects, suggests health insurance impacts some health, healthcare utilization …

Fairness Implications of Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation with Machine Learning Methods in Policy-making

P Rehill, N Biddle - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00805, 2023 - arxiv.org
Causal machine learning methods which flexibly generate heterogeneous treatment effect
estimates could be very useful tools for governments trying to make and implement policy …

Heterogeneous treatment effect estimation for observational data using model-based forests

S Dandl, A Bender, T Hothorn - Statistical Methods in …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects has attracted considerable interest in
many disciplines, most prominently in medicine and economics. Contemporary research has …

Exploratory subgroup identification in the heterogeneous Cox model: A relatively simple procedure

LF León, T Jemielita, Z Guo… - Statistics in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
For survival analysis applications we propose a novel procedure for identifying subgroups
with large treatment effects, with focus on subgroups where treatment is potentially …

Considerations for using tree-based machine learning to assess causation between demographic and environmental risk factors and health outcomes

D Galatro, A Di Nardo, V Pai, R Trigo-Ferre… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Evaluation of the heterogeneous treatment effect (HTE) allows for the assessment
of the causal effect of a therapy or intervention while considering heterogeneity in individual …