4 papers
A New Class of Mark-Specific Proportional Hazards Models for Recurrent Events: Application to Opioid Refills Among Post-Surgical Patients
Eileen Yang, Donglin Zeng, Mark Bicket +1
Prescription opioids relieve moderate-to-severe pain after surgery, but overprescription can lead to misuse and overdose. Understanding factors associated with post-surgical opioid…
Demographic Parity-aware Individualized Treatment Rules
Wenhai Cui, Wen Su, Xiaodong Yan +2
There has been growing interest in developing optimal individualized treatment rules (ITRs) in various fields, such as precision medicine, business decision-making, and social welf…
Nonparametric Causal Survival Analysis with Clustered Interference
Chanhwa Lee, Donglin Zeng, Michael Emch +2
Inferring treatment effects on a survival time outcome based on data from an observational study is challenging due to the presence of censoring and possible confounding. An additi…
Doubly robust causal inference through penalized bias-reduced estimation: combining non-probability samples with designed surveys
Jiacong Du, Xu Shi, Donglin Zeng +1
Causal inference on the average treatment effect (ATE) using non-probability samples, such as electronic health records (EHR), faces challenges from sample selection bias and high-…