6 papers
Apportioning Causal Responsibility of Two Risk Factors for an Adverse Outcome via Counterfactual Attribution
Shanshan Luo, Yafang Deng, Qingyuan Zhao +1
Unlike traditional causal inference, which prospectively evaluates the effects of causes, apportioning causal responsibility requires a retrospective assessment to deduce the cause…
An average-case sensitivity analysis for unmeasured confounding
Yao Zhang, Qingyuan Zhao
Sensitivity analysis for the unconfoundedness assumption is crucial in observational studies. For this purpose, the marginal sensitivity model gained popularity recently due to goo…
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…
Simultaneous false discovery rate control in location families
Zijun Gao, Wenjie Hu, Qingyuan Zhao
When testing a number of statistical hypotheses using data from location families, it is often useful to control the false discovery rate (FDR) not just for hypotheses of the null…
Optimization-based Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding using Partial Correlations
Tobias Freidling, Qingyuan Zhao
Causal inference necessarily relies upon untestable assumptions; hence, it is crucial to assess the robustness of obtained results to violations of identification assumptions. Howe…
Multiple conditional randomization tests for lagged and spillover treatment effects
Yao Zhang, Qingyuan Zhao
We consider the problem of constructing multiple independent conditional randomization tests using a single dataset. Because the tests are independent, the randomization p-values c…