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most citedMatching for balance, pairing for heterogeneity in an observational study of the effectiveness of for-profit and not-for-profit high schools in Chile

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stat.ME2022

Counterfactual Mean-variance Optimization

Kwangho Kim, Alan Mishler, José R. Zubizarreta

We study a counterfactual mean-variance optimization, where the mean and variance are defined as functionals of counterfactual distributions. The optimization problem defines the o…

stat.ME2022★ 2 cited

Balanced and Robust Randomized Treatment Assignments: The Finite Selection Model for the Health Insurance Experiment and Beyond

Ambarish Chattopadhyay, Carl N. Morris, Jose R. Zubizarreta

The Finite Selection Model (FSM) was developed by Carl Morris in the 1970s for the design of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE) (Morris 1979, Newhouse et al. 1993), one of…

stat.ME2022★ 1 cited

One-Step weighting to generalize and transport treatment effect estimates to a target population

Ambarish Chattopadhyay, Eric R. Cohn, Jose R. Zubizarreta

The problem of generalization and transportation of treatment effect estimates from a study sample to a target population is central to empirical research and statistical methodolo…

stat.ME2022★ 1 cited

Privacy-Preserving, Communication-Efficient, and Target-Flexible Hospital Quality Measurement

Larry Han, Yige Li, Bijan A. Niknam +1

Integrating information from multiple data sources can enable more precise, timely, and generalizable decisions. However, it is challenging to make valid causal inferences using ob…

stat.ME2022★ 46 cited

Using Cardinality Matching to Design Balanced and Representative Samples for Observational Studies

Bijan A. Niknam, Jose R. Zubizarreta

Cardinality matching is a computational method for finding the largest possible number of matched pairs of exposed and unexposed individuals from an observational dataset, with spe…