Using Recursive Partitioning to Find and Estimate Heterogenous Treatment Effects In Randomized Clinical Trials

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Main Authors: Berk, Richard A., Olson, Matthew, Buja, Andreas, Ouss, Aurelie
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author Berk, Richard A.
Olson, Matthew
Buja, Andreas
Ouss, Aurelie
author_facet Berk, Richard A.
Olson, Matthew
Buja, Andreas
Ouss, Aurelie
contents Heterogeneous treatment effects can be very important in the analysis of randomized clinical trials. Heightened risks or enhanced benefits may exist for particular subsets of study subjects. When the heterogeneous treatment effects are specified as the research is being designed, there are proper and readily available analysis techniques. When the heterogeneous treatment effects are inductively obtained as an experiment's data are analyzed, significant complications are introduced. There can be a need for special loss functions designed to find local average treatment effects and for techniques that properly address post selection statistical inference. In this paper, we tackle both while undertaking a recursive partitioning analysis of a randomized clinical trial testing whether individuals on probation, who are low risk, can be minimally supervised with no increase in recidivism.
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spellingShingle Using Recursive Partitioning to Find and Estimate Heterogenous Treatment Effects In Randomized Clinical Trials
Berk, Richard A.
Olson, Matthew
Buja, Andreas
Ouss, Aurelie
Methodology
Heterogeneous treatment effects can be very important in the analysis of randomized clinical trials. Heightened risks or enhanced benefits may exist for particular subsets of study subjects. When the heterogeneous treatment effects are specified as the research is being designed, there are proper and readily available analysis techniques. When the heterogeneous treatment effects are inductively obtained as an experiment's data are analyzed, significant complications are introduced. There can be a need for special loss functions designed to find local average treatment effects and for techniques that properly address post selection statistical inference. In this paper, we tackle both while undertaking a recursive partitioning analysis of a randomized clinical trial testing whether individuals on probation, who are low risk, can be minimally supervised with no increase in recidivism.
title Using Recursive Partitioning to Find and Estimate Heterogenous Treatment Effects In Randomized Clinical Trials
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04164