Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects by W-MCM based on Robust reduced rank regression

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Main Authors: Hieda, Ryoma, Yuki, Shintaro, Tanioka, Kensuke, Yadohisa, Hiroshi
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author Hieda, Ryoma
Yuki, Shintaro
Tanioka, Kensuke
Yadohisa, Hiroshi
author_facet Hieda, Ryoma
Yuki, Shintaro
Tanioka, Kensuke
Yadohisa, Hiroshi
contents Recently, from the personalized medicine perspective, there has been an increased demand to identify subgroups of subjects for whom treatment is effective. Consequently, the estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects (HTE) has been attracting attention. While various estimation methods have been developed for a single outcome, there are still limited approaches for estimating HTE for multiple outcomes. Accurately estimating HTE remains a challenge especially for datasets where there is a high correlation between outcomes or the presence of outliers. Therefore, this study proposes a method that uses a robust reduced-rank regression framework to estimate treatment effects and identify effective subgroups. This approach allows the consideration of correlations between treatment effects and the estimation of treatment effects with an accurate low-rank structure. It also provides robust estimates for outliers. This study demonstrates that, when treatment effects are estimated using the reduced rank regression framework with an appropriate rank, the expected value of the estimator equals the treatment effect. Finally, we illustrate the effectiveness and interpretability of the proposed method through simulations and real data examples.
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spellingShingle Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects by W-MCM based on Robust reduced rank regression
Hieda, Ryoma
Yuki, Shintaro
Tanioka, Kensuke
Yadohisa, Hiroshi
Methodology
Recently, from the personalized medicine perspective, there has been an increased demand to identify subgroups of subjects for whom treatment is effective. Consequently, the estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects (HTE) has been attracting attention. While various estimation methods have been developed for a single outcome, there are still limited approaches for estimating HTE for multiple outcomes. Accurately estimating HTE remains a challenge especially for datasets where there is a high correlation between outcomes or the presence of outliers. Therefore, this study proposes a method that uses a robust reduced-rank regression framework to estimate treatment effects and identify effective subgroups. This approach allows the consideration of correlations between treatment effects and the estimation of treatment effects with an accurate low-rank structure. It also provides robust estimates for outliers. This study demonstrates that, when treatment effects are estimated using the reduced rank regression framework with an appropriate rank, the expected value of the estimator equals the treatment effect. Finally, we illustrate the effectiveness and interpretability of the proposed method through simulations and real data examples.
title Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects by W-MCM based on Robust reduced rank regression
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19659