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Estimating heterogeneous effects of continuous exposures using Bayesian tree ensembles: revisiting the impact of abortion rates on crime
Spencer Woody, Carlos M. Carvalho, P. Richard Hahn +1
In estimating the causal effect of a continuous exposure or treatment, it is important to control for all confounding factors. However, most existing methods require parametric spe…
Monotone function estimation in the presence of extreme data coarsening: Analysis of preeclampsia and birth weight in urban Uganda
Jennifer E. Starling, Catherine E. Aiken, Jared S. Murray +2
This paper proposes a Bayesian hierarchical model to characterize the relationship between birth weight and maternal pre-eclampsia across gestation at a large maternity hospital in…
A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Evaluating Forensic Footwear Evidence
Neil A. Spencer, Jared S. Murray
When a latent shoeprint is discovered at a crime scene, forensic analysts inspect it for distinctive patterns of wear such as scratches and holes (known as accidentals) on the sour…
Targeted Smooth Bayesian Causal Forests: An analysis of heterogeneous treatment effects for simultaneous versus interval medical abortion regimens over gestation
Jennifer E. Starling, Jared S. Murray, Patricia A. Lohr +3
We introduce Targeted Smooth Bayesian Causal Forests (tsBCF), a nonparametric Bayesian approach for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects which vary smoothly over a single cov…