Emulate randomized clinical trials using heterogeneous treatment effect estimation for personalized treatments: Methodology review and benchmark

Y Ling, P Upadhyaya, L Chen, X Jiang, Y Kim - Journal of biomedical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Big data and (deep) machine learning have been ambitious tools in digital medicine, but
these tools focus mainly on association. Intervention in medicine is about the causal effects …

The hardness of conditional independence testing and the generalised covariance measure

RD Shah, J Peters - 2020 - projecteuclid.org
The hardness of conditional independence testing and the generalised covariance measure
Page 1 The Annals of Statistics 2020, Vol. 48, No. 3, 1514–1538 https://doi.org/10.1214/19-AOS1857 …

Nonparametric causal effects based on incremental propensity score interventions

EH Kennedy - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Most work in causal inference considers deterministic interventions that set each unit's
treatment to some fixed value. However, under positivity violations these interventions can …

[HTML][HTML] Employee benefits and company performance: Evidence from a high-dimensional machine learning model

M Ranta, M Ylinen - Management Accounting Research, 2024 - Elsevier
By incorporating novel social media data, we analyze in detail how US companies offer
different employee benefits and how they are associated with several company performance …

Kernel-based covariate functional balancing for observational studies

RKW Wong, KCG Chan - Biometrika, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Covariate balance is often advocated for objective causal inference since it mimics
randomization in observational data. Unlike methods that balance specific moments of …

Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation using machine learning for Healthcare application: tutorial and benchmark

Y Ling, P Upadhyaya, L Chen, X Jiang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Developing new drugs for target diseases is a time-consuming and expensive task, drug
repurposing has become a popular topic in the drug development field. As much health …

Learning weighted representations for generalization across designs

FD Johansson, N Kallus, U Shalit, D Sontag - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Predictive models that generalize well under distributional shift are often desirable and
sometimes crucial to building robust and reliable machine learning applications. We focus …

Nonparametric efficient causal mediation with intermediate confounders

I Díaz, NS Hejazi, KE Rudolph, MJ van Der Laan - Biometrika, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Interventional effects for mediation analysis were proposed as a solution to the lack of
identifiability of natural (in) direct effects in the presence of a mediator-outcome confounder …

Machine learning for sarcopenia prediction in the elderly using socioeconomic, infrastructure, and quality-of-life data

M Seok, W Kim, J Kim - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
Since the WHO's 2021 aging redefinition emphasizes “healthy aging” by focusing on the
elderly's ability to perform daily activities, sarcopenia, which is defined as the loss of skeletal …

[HTML][HTML] Learning end-to-end patient representations through self-supervised covariate balancing for causal treatment effect estimation

G Tesei, S Giampanis, J Shi, B Norgeot - Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
A causal effect can be defined as a comparison of outcomes that result from two or more
alternative actions, with only one of the action-outcome pairs actually being observed. In …