Generalized coarsened confounding for causal effects: a large-sample framework
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| author | Ghosh, Debashis Wang, Lei |
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| contents | There has been widespread use of causal inference methods for the rigorous analysis of observational studies and to identify policy evaluations. In this article, we consider a class of generalized coarsened procedures for confounding. At a high level, these procedures can be viewed as performing a clustering of confounding variables, followed by treatment effect and attendant variance estimation using the confounder strata. In addition, we propose two new algorithms for generalized coarsened confounding. While Iacus et al. (2011) developed some statistical properties for one special case in our class of procedures, we instead develop a general asymptotic framework. We provide asymptotic results for the average causal effect estimator as well as providing conditions for consistency. In addition, we provide an asymptotic justification for the variance formulae in Iacus et al. (2011). A bias correction technique is proposed, and we apply the proposed methodology to data from two well-known observational studies. |
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| spellingShingle | Generalized coarsened confounding for causal effects: a large-sample framework Ghosh, Debashis Wang, Lei Methodology Statistics Theory Applications Machine Learning 62P10 (Primary) 62P25, 62P15 (Secondary) There has been widespread use of causal inference methods for the rigorous analysis of observational studies and to identify policy evaluations. In this article, we consider a class of generalized coarsened procedures for confounding. At a high level, these procedures can be viewed as performing a clustering of confounding variables, followed by treatment effect and attendant variance estimation using the confounder strata. In addition, we propose two new algorithms for generalized coarsened confounding. While Iacus et al. (2011) developed some statistical properties for one special case in our class of procedures, we instead develop a general asymptotic framework. We provide asymptotic results for the average causal effect estimator as well as providing conditions for consistency. In addition, we provide an asymptotic justification for the variance formulae in Iacus et al. (2011). A bias correction technique is proposed, and we apply the proposed methodology to data from two well-known observational studies. |
| title | Generalized coarsened confounding for causal effects: a large-sample framework |
| topic | Methodology Statistics Theory Applications Machine Learning 62P10 (Primary) 62P25, 62P15 (Secondary) |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03129 |