Confounding-robust policy improvement

N Kallus, A Zhou - Advances in neural information …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of learning personalized decision policies from observational data
while accounting for possible unobserved confounding in the data-generating process …

Unmeasured confounding in nonrandomized studies: quantitative bias analysis in health technology assessment

TP Leahy, S Kent, C Sammon… - Journal of …, 2022 - becarispublishing.com
Evidence generated from nonrandomized studies (NRS) is increasingly submitted to health
technology assessment (HTA) agencies. Unmeasured confounding is a primary concern …

Minimax-optimal policy learning under unobserved confounding

N Kallus, A Zhou - Management Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study the problem of learning personalized decision policies from observational data
while accounting for possible unobserved confounding. Previous approaches, which …

Distributionally robust causal inference with observational data

D Bertsimas, K Imai, ML Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.08326, 2022 - arxiv.org
We consider the estimation of average treatment effects in observational studies and
propose a new framework of robust causal inference with unobserved confounders. Our …

Sensitivity analysis for matched observational studies with continuous exposures and binary outcomes

J Zhang, DS Small, S Heng - Biometrika, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Matching is one of the most widely used study designs for adjusting for measured
confounders in observational studies. However, unmeasured confounding may exist and …

Evidence factors from multiple, possibly invalid, instrumental variables

A Zhao, Y Lee, DS Small, B Karmakar - The Annals of Statistics, 2022 - projecteuclid.org
Evidence factors from multiple, possibly invalid, instrumental variables Page 1 The Annals of
Statistics 2022, Vol. 50, No. 3, 1266–1296 https://doi.org/10.1214/21-AOS2148 © Institute of …

Sensitivity analysis for quantiles of hidden biases in matched observational studies

D Wu, X Li - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Causal conclusions from observational studies may be sensitive to unmeasured
confounding. In such cases, a sensitivity analysis is often conducted, which tries to infer the …

Extended sensitivity analysis for heterogeneous unmeasured confounding with an application to sibling studies of returns to education

CB Fogarty, RB Hasegawa - The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2019 - JSTOR
The conventional model for assessing insensitivity to hidden bias in paired observational
studies constructs a worst-case distribution for treatment assignments subject to bounds on …

Model assisted sensitivity analyses for hidden bias with binary outcomes

G Nattino, B Lu - Biometrics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In medical and health sciences, observational studies are a major data source for inferring
causal relationships. Unlike randomized experiments, observational studies are vulnerable …

Comparison of Nearest Neighbor and Caliper Algorithms in Outcome Propensity Score Matching to Study the Relationship between Type 2 Diabetes and Coronary …

SS Tousi, H Tabesh, A Saki… - … of Biostatistics and …, 2021 - publish.kne-publishing.com
Introduction: Propensity score matching (PSM) is a method to reduce the impact of essential
and confounders. When the number of confounders is high, there may be a problem of …