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Activity Number: 323 - Estimating Treatment Effects: Applications in Health Policy
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 : 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Sponsor: Health Policy Statistics Section
Abstract #313784
Title: Estimating Causal Effects in Observational Studies: A Comparison of the Use of Boosting for Modeling the Assignment Mechanism, the Response Surface, or Both
Author(s): Daniela Golinelli* and Greg Ridgeway
Companies: Mathematica and University of Pennsylvania
Keywords: Causal inference; Observational studies; boosting; bart
Abstract:

Several authors have shown that modeling well the response surface using non-parametric approaches produces better treatment effect estimates than those obtained by modeling the treatment assignment mechanism. With this paper we investigate the use of boosting in modeling the assignment mechanism, the response surface, and/or both in a doubly robust setting. We use the same simulation set-ups that have appeared in the literature to assess and compare the performance of the various boosting approaches to more traditional approaches (such as linear regression for modeling the response surface) and Bayesian Additive Regression Trees.


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