Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes

S Feuerriegel, D Frauen, V Melnychuk, J Schweisthal… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Causal machine learning (ML) offers flexible, data-driven methods for predicting treatment
outcomes including efficacy and toxicity, thereby supporting the assessment and safety of …

A survey on causal inference

L Yao, Z Chu, S Li, Y Li, J Gao, A Zhang - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Causal inference is a critical research topic across many domains, such as statistics,
computer science, education, public policy, and economics, for decades. Nowadays …

Redlines and greenspace: the relationship between historical redlining and 2010 greenspace across the United States

A Nardone, KE Rudolph… - Environmental health …, 2021 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Introduction: Redlining, a racist mortgage appraisal practice of the 1930s, established and
exacerbated racial residential segregation boundaries in the United States. Investment risk …

Precision medicine

MR Kosorok, EB Laber - Annual review of statistics and its …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Precision medicine seeks to maximize the quality of health care by individualizing the health-
care process to the uniquely evolving health status of each patient. This endeavor spans a …

Using big data to emulate a target trial when a randomized trial is not available

MA Hernán, JM Robins - American journal of epidemiology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Ideally, questions about comparative effectiveness or safety would be answered using an
appropriately designed and conducted randomized experiment. When we cannot conduct a …

Nationwide geospatial analysis of county racial and ethnic composition and public drinking water arsenic and uranium

I Martinez-Morata, BC Bostick, O Conroy-Ben… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
There is no safe level of exposure to inorganic arsenic or uranium, yet recent studies
identified sociodemographic and regional inequalities in concentrations of these frequently …

Selection bias due to loss to follow up in cohort studies

CJ Howe, SR Cole, B Lau, S Napravnik… - Epidemiology, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Selection bias due to loss to follow up represents a threat to the internal validity of estimates
derived from cohort studies. Over the past 15 years, stratification-based techniques as well …

Targeted maximum likelihood estimation for causal inference in observational studies

MS Schuler, S Rose - American journal of epidemiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Estimation of causal effects using observational data continues to grow in popularity in the
epidemiologic literature. While many applications of causal effect estimation use propensity …

Effectiveness and safety of reduced dose non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants and warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation: propensity weighted nationwide …

PB Nielsen, F Skjøth, M Søgaard, JN Kjældgaard… - bmj, 2017 - bmj.com
Objective To examine clinical effectiveness and safety of apixaban 2.5 mg, dabigatran 110
mg, and rivaroxaban 15 mg compared with warfarin among patients with atrial fibrillation …

Renin–angiotensin system blockers and susceptibility to COVID-19: an international, open science, cohort analysis

DR Morales, MM Conover, SC You, N Pratt… - The Lancet Digital …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin receptor
blockers (ARBs) have been postulated to affect susceptibility to COVID-19. Observational …