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most citedCausalMetaR: An R package for performing causally interpretable meta-analyses

5 citations · 33 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

stat.ME2026

Beyond Exchangeability: Distribution-Shift-Aware Integration of External Control Data in Randomized Trials

Jiawei Shan, Yiteng Tu, Guanbo Wang +2

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for evaluating causal effects but are often costly and difficult to scale; consequently, they are frequently augmented wit…

stat.ME2026

Cluster-induced target shift and synthetic approximation for high-dimensional clustered data

Shangyuan Ye, Cong Zhang, Ying Chen +2

In high-dimensional clustered data, covariates whose distributions differ across clusters can act as proxies for unobserved cluster effects. We show that the marginal-model LASSO i…

stat.ME2026

Constructing external comparator groups via transportability in mean or in effect measure

Lawson Ung, Guanbo Wang, Sebastien Haneuse +3

Learning about causal effects in target populations and their subsets may be facilitated by combining information from multiple sources. One major class of study designs that combi…

cs.LG2025

Efficient Randomized Experiments Using Foundation Models

Piersilvio De Bartolomeis, Javier Abad, Guanbo Wang +4

Randomized experiments are the preferred approach for evaluating the effects of interventions, but they are costly and often yield estimates with substantial uncertainty. On the ot…

stat.ME2024

Adaptive sparsening and smoothing of the treatment model for longitudinal causal inference using outcome-adaptive LASSO and marginal fused LASSO

Mireille E Schnitzer, Denis Talbot, Yan Liu +5

Causal variable selection in time-varying treatment settings is challenging due to evolving confounding effects. Existing methods mainly focus on time-fixed exposures and are not d…

stat.ME2024★ 3 cited

Robust integration of external control data in randomized trials

Rickard Karlsson, Guanbo Wang, Piersilvio De Bartolomeis +2

One approach for increasing the efficiency of randomized trials is the use of "external controls" -- individuals who received the control treatment studied in the trial during rout…

stat.ME2024★ 3 cited

Identification strategies for combining an experimental study with external data

Lawson Ung, Guanbo Wang, Sebastien Haneuse +2

There is increasing interest in combining information from experimental studies, including randomized and single-group trials, with information from external experimental or observ…

stat.AP2024★ 2 cited

Extending Inferences from Randomized Clinical Trials to Target Populations: A Scoping Review of Transportability Methods

Guanbo Wang, Ting-Wei Ernie Liao, David Furfaro +2

Objective: Randomized controlled trial (RCT) results often inform clinical decision-making, but the highly curated populations of trials and the care provided during the trial are…

q-bio.QM2024

Association between Sitting Time and Urinary Incontinence in the US Population: data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007 to 2018

Guanbo Wang, Xingpeng Di

Background Urinary incontinence (UI) is a common health problem that affects the life and health quality of millions of people in the US. We aimed to investigate the association be…

stat.ME2024★ 2 cited

Efficient estimation of subgroup treatment effects using multi-source data

Guanbo Wang, Alexander Levis, Jon Steingrimsson +1

Investigators often use multi-source data (e.g., multi-center trials, meta-analyses of randomized trials, pooled analyses of observational cohorts) to learn about the effects of in…

stat.ME2024★ 5 cited

CausalMetaR: An R package for performing causally interpretable meta-analyses

Guanbo Wang, Sean McGrath, Yi Lian

Researchers would often like to leverage data from a collection of sources (e.g., primary studies in a meta-analysis) to estimate causal effects in a target population of interest.…

stat.ME2024★ 2 cited

Causal inference under transportability assumptions for conditional relative effect measures

Guanbo Wang, Alexander Levis, Jon Steingrimsson +1

When extending inferences from a randomized trial to a new target population, the transportability condition for conditional difference effect measures is invoked to identify the m…

stat.ME2024★ 3 cited

Penalized G-estimation for effect modifier selection in a structural nested mean model for repeated outcomes

Ajmery Jaman, Guanbo Wang, Ashkan Ertefaie +4

Effect modification occurs when the impact of the treatment on an outcome varies based on the levels of other covariates known as effect modifiers. Modeling these effect difference…

stat.ME2024★ 1 cited

Continuous-time structural failure time model for intermittent treatment

Guanbo Wang, Siyi Liu, Shu Yang

The intermittent intake of treatment is commonly seen in patients with chronic disease. For example, patients with atrial fibrillation may need to discontinue the oral anticoagulan…

stat.ME2024★ 1 cited

Non-collapsibility and Built-in Selection Bias of Hazard Ratio in Randomized Controlled Trials

Helen Bian, Menglan Pang, Guanbo Wang +1

Background: The hazard ratio of the Cox proportional hazards model is widely used in randomized controlled trials to assess treatment effects. However, two properties of the hazard…

stat.ME2023

Structured Learning in Time-dependent Cox Models

Guanbo Wang, Yi Lian, Archer Y. Yang +5

Cox models with time-dependent coefficients and covariates are widely used in survival analysis. In high-dimensional settings, sparse regularization techniques are employed for var…

stat.ME2022★ 5 cited

Evaluating hybrid controls methodology in early-phase oncology trials: a simulation study based on the MORPHEUS-UC trial

Guanbo Wang, Melanie Poulin Costello, Herbert Pang +6

Phase Ib/II oncology trials, despite their small sample sizes, aim to provide information for optimal internal company decision-making concerning novel drug development. Hybrid con…

stat.AP2022★ 2 cited

Integrating complex selection rules into the latent overlapping group Lasso for constructing coherent prediction models

Guanbo Wang, Sylvie Perreault, Robert W. Platt +3

The construction of coherent prediction models holds great importance in medical research as such models enable health researchers to gain deeper insights into disease epidemiology…

stat.ME2021★ 4 cited

A general framework for formulating structured variable selection

Guanbo Wang, Mireille E. Schnitzer, Tom Chen +2

In variable selection, a selection rule that prescribes the permissible sets of selected variables (called a "selection dictionary") is desirable due to the inherent structural con…

stat.ME2021

Modeling Treatment Effect Modification in Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in an Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis

Yan Liu, Mireille Schnitzer, Guanbo Wang +6

Effect modification occurs while the effect of the treatment is not homogeneous across the different strata of patient characteristics. When the effect of treatment may vary from i…