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Causal mediation with instrumental variables
Kara E. Rudolph, Nicholas Williams, Ivan Diaz
Mediation analysis is a strategy for understanding the mechanisms by which treatments or interventions affect later outcomes. Mediation analysis is frequently applied in randomized…
When effects cannot be estimated: redefining estimands to understand the effects of naloxone access laws
Kara E. Rudolph, Catherine Gimbrone, Ellicott C. Matthay +4
Violations of the positivity assumption (also called the common support condition) challenge health policy research, and can result in significant bias, large variance, and invalid…
When the ends don't justify the means: Learning a treatment strategy to prevent harmful indirect effects
Kara E. Rudolph, Ivan Diaz
There is a growing literature on finding so-called optimal treatment rules, which are rules by which to assign treatment to individuals based on an individual's characteristics, su…