4 papers
Causal Perspectives on Network Meta-Analysis
Ahmed Boughdiri, Francisco Andrade, Clément Berenfeld +1
Pairwise and network meta-analyses occupy the highest tier of evidence-based medicine and routinely inform clinical guidelines and healthcare decision-making. Current approaches ty…
Causal Meta-Analysis: Rethinking the Foundations of Evidence-Based Medicine
Clément Berenfeld, Ahmed Boughdiri, Bénédicte Colnet +5
Meta-analysis, by synthesizing effect estimates from multiple studies conducted in diverse settings, stands at the top of the evidence hierarchy in clinical research. Yet, conventi…
Quantifying Treatment Effects: Estimating Risk Ratios in Causal Inference
Ahmed Boughdiri, Julie Josse, Erwan Scornet
Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) are the current gold standards to empirically measure the effect of a new drug. However, they may be of limited size and resorting to complementa…
A Unified Framework for the Transportability of Population-Level Causal Measures
Ahmed Boughdiri, Clément Berenfeld, Julie Josse +1
Generalization methods offer a powerful solution to one of the key drawbacks of randomized controlled trials (RCTs): their limited representativeness. By enabling the transport of…