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Statistical Analysis Plan for Health Outcomes in Phase 1 of the SEARCH-IPT Study
Laura B. Balzer, Joshua Nugent, Diane V. Havlir +1
This document provides the statistical analytic plan (SAP) for evaluating health outcomes in Phase 1 of the SEARCH-IPT Study, a cluster randomized trial to evaluate whether a multi…
Evaluating the Impact of State-Level Public Masking Mandates on New COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the United States: A Demonstration of the Causal Roadmap
Angus K. Wong, Laura B. Balzer
At a national-level, we sought to investigate the effect of public masking mandates on COVID-19 in Fall 2020. Specifically, we aimed to evaluate how the relative growth of COVID-19…
Evaluating shifts in mobility and COVID-19 case rates in U.S. counties: A demonstration of modified treatment policies for causal inference with continuous exposures
Joshua R. Nugent, Laura B. Balzer
Previous research has shown mixed evidence on the associations between mobility data and COVID-19 case rates, analysis of which is complicated by differences between places on fact…
Defining and Estimating Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials: A Methods Comparison
Alejandra Benitez, Maya L. Petersen, Mark J. van der Laan +7
Across research disciplines, cluster randomized trials (CRTs) are commonly implemented to evaluate interventions delivered to groups of participants, such as communities and clinic…
Two-Stage TMLE to Reduce Bias and Improve Efficiency in Cluster Randomized Trials
Laura B. Balzer, Mark van der Laan, James Ayieko +5
Cluster randomized trials (CRTs) randomly assign an intervention to groups of individuals (e.g., clinics or communities) and measure outcomes on individuals in those groups. While…