3 papers
stat.ME2026
Causal Meta-Analysis: Rethinking the Foundations of Evidence-Based Medicine
Clément Berenfeld, Ahmed Boughdiri, Bénédicte Colnet +5
Meta-analysis, by synthesizing effect estimates from multiple studies conducted in diverse settings, stands at the top of the evidence hierarchy in clinical research. Yet, conventi…
stat.ME2025
Risk ratio, odds ratio, risk difference... Which causal measure is easier to generalize?
Bénédicte Colnet, Julie Josse, Gaël Varoquaux +1
There are many measures to report so-called treatment or causal effects: absolute difference, ratio, odds ratio, number needed to treat, and so on. The choice of a measure, e.g. ab…
stat.ME2024
Reweighting the RCT for generalization: finite sample error and variable selection
Bénédicte Colnet, Julie Josse, Gaël Varoquaux +1
Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) may suffer from limited scope. In particular, samples may be unrepresentative: some RCTs over- or under- sample individuals with certain charact…