Assessing conditional causal effect via characteristic score

• Published in: Statistics in medicine Vol. 40; no. 24; pp. 5188 - 5198
• Main Author: Hu, Zonghui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 30.10.2021
• Subjects: Antiretroviral drugs; causal inference; conditional causal effect; dimension reduction; high dimensionality; nonparametric regression; Nonparametric statistics; sparse dimension reduction

Observational studies usually include participants representing the wide heterogeneous population. The conditional causal effect, treatment effect conditional on baseline characteristics, is of practical importance. Its estimation is subject to two challenges. First, the causal effect is not observa...