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Activity Number:
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463
- Topics in Biostatistics
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 6, 2020 : 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
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Sponsor:
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ENAR
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Abstract #313560
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Title:
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A Scanning-Based Inverse Propensity Weighting for Nonrandom Missing Data with Continuous Instrumental Variables
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Author(s):
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David Todem* and Arkaprabha Ganguli
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Companies:
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Michigan State University and Department of Statistics and Probability, MSU
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Keywords:
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Continuous instrument variables;
Continuous dichotomizations;
Early childhood caries;
Empirical process theory ;
Exponential tilting, Identifiability;
Kernel regression
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Abstract:
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We consider the problem of estimating unknown population parameters using data with nonrandom missing values, focusing on inverse propensity weighting and instrumental variables. With discrete instruments, Shao and Wang (2016) proposed a semiparametric estimation approach under the framework of exponential tilting propensity. A naive application of this idea to continuous instrumental variables through arbitrary discretizations is apt to be inefficient, and maybe questionable in some settings. In this talk, we propose a novel and flexible approach that does not rely on single arbitrary discretizations but involves continuous dichotomizations across the instrument space. Empirical processes resulting from these dichotomizations are then used to estimate the unknown parameters through weighted integration. We establish the consistency and asymptotically normality of the proposed estimator. Simulation studies and a real data analysis demonstrate the gains of the methodology over procedures that rely on arbitrary discretizations.
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