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most citedA Meta-Learning Method for Estimation of Causal Excursion Effects to Assess Time-Varying Moderation

3 citations · 6 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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stat.AP2026

Heritability: A Counterfactual Perspective

Haochen Lei, Jieru Shi, Hongyuan Cao +1

Heritability is a central concept in the long-standing debate about nature versus nurture in biological and social sciences. However, existing notions of heritability are based on…

stat.ML2023★ 1 cited

RoME: A Robust Mixed-Effects Bandit Algorithm for Optimizing Mobile Health Interventions

Easton K. Huch, Jieru Shi, Madeline R. Abbott +3

Mobile health leverages personalized and contextually tailored interventions optimized through bandit and reinforcement learning algorithms. In practice, however, challenges such a…

stat.ME2023★ 2 cited

Incorporating Auxiliary Variables to Improve the Efficiency of Time-Varying Treatment Effect Estimation

Jieru Shi, Zhenke Wu, Walter Dempsey

Contextual sensing and delivery of digital interventions to improve health outcomes have gained significant traction in behavioral and psychiatric studies. Micro-randomized trials…

stat.ME2023★ 3 cited

A Meta-Learning Method for Estimation of Causal Excursion Effects to Assess Time-Varying Moderation

Jieru Shi, Walter Dempsey

Advances in wearable technologies and health interventions delivered by smartphones have greatly increased the accessibility of mobile health (mHealth) interventions. Micro-randomi…

stat.ME2022

Estimating Time-Varying Direct and Indirect Causal Excursion Effects with Longitudinal Binary Outcomes

Jieru Shi, Zhenke Wu, Walter Dempsey

Construction of just-in-time adaptive interventions, such as prompts delivered by mobile apps to promote and maintain behavioral change, requires knowledge about time-varying moder…

stat.ME2021

Assessing Time-Varying Causal Effect Moderation in the Presence of Cluster-Level Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Jieru Shi, Zhenke Wu, Walter Dempsey

The micro-randomized trial (MRT) is a sequential randomized experimental design to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of mobile health (mHealth) intervention components that ma…