3 papers
stat.ME2026
Causal Discovery via Statistical Power (CDSP)
Shreya Prakash, Fan Xia, Elena A. Erosheva
Causal discovery methods aim to infer causal direction from observational data. Functional causal discovery approaches use structural asymmetries to identify causal directionality…
stat.ME2026
Robust and Efficient Semiparametric Inference for the Stepped Wedge Design
Fan Xia, K. C. Gary Chan, Emily Voldal +3
Stepped wedge designs (SWDs) are increasingly used to evaluate longitudinal cluster-level interventions but pose substantial challenges for valid inference. Because crossover times…
stat.ME2025
Factors affecting power in stepped wedge trials when the treatment effect varies with time
Avi Kenny, Emily C. Voldal, Fan Xia +3
Stepped wedge cluster randomized trials (SW-CRTs) have historically been analyzed using immediate treatment (IT) models, which assume the effect of the treatment is immediate after…