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Activity Number:
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135
- Move Non/Semiparametrics Forward in Causal Inference, Missing Data Analysis, and Data Integration
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 4, 2020 : 10:00 AM to 11:50 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Nonparametric Statistics
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Abstract #308078
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Title:
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A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach for Estimating the Causal Effect of a Time-Varying/Dynamic Treatment
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Author(s):
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Michael Daniels* and Kumaresh Dhara and Jason Roy
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Companies:
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University of Florida and University of Florida and Rutgers University
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Keywords:
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causal inference;
longitudinal data
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Abstract:
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Enriched Dirichlet process mixture models (EDPMs) provide very flexible conditional distributions that are particularly useful for modeling the distribution of outcomes given confounders for causal inference. We propose an EDPM with G-computation for estimating the causal effect of dynamic treatment regimes. The 'base model' here consists of the product of parsimonius, parametric, conditional distributions typically used in parametric G-computation. Posterior computations are relatively straightforward and involve almost entirely conjugate (within Gibbs sampling) updates. The EDPM approach is explored via simulations and applied to a real dataset.
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