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07/12/2023
Doubly robust machine learning for an instrumental variable study of surgical care for cholecystitis
Comparative effectiveness research frequently employs the instrumental v...
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03/17/2023
Improving instrumental variable estimators with post-stratification
An instrumental variable (IV) is a device that encourages units in a stu...
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02/15/2023
A Guide to Regression Discontinuity Designs in Medical Applications
We present a practical guide for the analysis of regression discontinuit...
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01/28/2023
Covariate-assisted bounds on causal effects with instrumental variables
When an exposure of interest is confounded by unmeasured factors, an ins...
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01/12/2023
Approximate Balancing Weights for Clustered Observational Study Designs
In a clustered observational study, a treatment is assigned to groups an...
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10/04/2022
Using Balancing Weights to Target the Treatment Effect on the Treated when Overlap is Poor
Inverse probability weights are commonly used in epidemiology to estimat...
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09/09/2022
Estimating Racial Disparities in Emergency General Surgery
Research documents that Black patients experience worse general surgery ...
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06/21/2022
Nonparametric identification of causal effects in clustered observational studies with differential selection
The clustered observational study (COS) design is the observational stud...
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10/15/2021
Covariate Adjustment in Regression Discontinuity Designs
The Regression Discontinuity (RD) design is a widely used non-experiment...
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03/10/2021
Profiling Compliers in Instrumental Variables Designs
Instrumental variable (IV) analyses are becoming common in health servic...
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07/17/2020
Hospital Quality Risk Standardization via Approximate Balancing Weights
Comparing outcomes across hospitals, often to identify underperforming h...
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06/03/2020
A Negative Correlation Strategy for Bracketing in Difference-in-Differences with Application to the Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Voter Turnout
The method of difference-in-differences (DID) is widely used to study th...
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05/04/2020
Protocol for a Study of the Effect of Surface Mining in Central Appalachia on Adverse Birth Outcomes
Surface mining has become a major method of coal mining in Central Appal...
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01/22/2020
Comparing the Performance of Statistical Adjustment Methods By Recovering the Experimental Benchmark from the REFLUX Trial
Much evidence in comparative effectiveness research is based on observat...
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07/03/2019
Evaluating A Key Instrumental Variable Assumption Using Randomization Tests
Instrumental variable (IV) analyses are becoming common in health servic...
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08/20/2018
Spillover Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials with Noncompliance
Clustered randomized trials (CRTs) are popular in the social sciences to...
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08/13/2018
Extrapolating Treatment Effects in Multi-Cutoff Regression Discontinuity Designs
Regression discontinuity (RD) designs are viewed as one of the most cred...
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05/09/2018
Estimation Methods for Cluster Randomized Trials with Noncompliance: A Study of A Biometric Smartcard Payment System in India
Many policy evaluations occur in settings with randomized assignment at ...
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05/09/2018