Health Policy Statistics Section Student Paper Award

Tue, Aug 5, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM Room CC-202B Music City Center

Zheyu WangOrganizerFatema Shafie KhorassaniOrganizerZheyu WangChair

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5 Presentations

Reinforcement Learning For Respondent-Driven Sampling

8:35 AM - 8:55 AM

Justin Weltz (Santa Fe Institute)

Co-authors: Angela Yoon (Duke University), Yichi Zhang (Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Rhode Island), Alexander Volfovsky (Duke University), Eric Laber

Respondent-driven sampling, Reinforcement learning, Branching processes

A Joint Modeling Approach To Treatment Effects Estimation With Unmeasured Confounders in Clustered Data

8:55 AM - 9:15 AM

Namhwa Lee (University of California- Riverside)

Co-authors: Namhwa Lee (University of California- Riverside), Guanyu Hu (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston), Shujie Ma (UC Riverside)

Treatment effect; Unmeasured confounding variable; No unmeasured confounding assumption; EM algorithm; Laplace Approximation; Metal health and air pollution

Analysis of spatially clustered survival data with unobserved covariates using SBART

9:15 AM - 9:35 AM

Durbadal Ghosh

Co-authors: Debajyoti Sinha (Florida State University), Antonio Linero, George Rust (Florida State University)

Spatial survival analysis; Multiple data sources integration; Soft Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (SBART); Racial disparities; Life-Years Saved.

Nonparametric Causal Survival Analysis with Clustered Interference

9:35 AM - 9:55 AM

Chanhwa Lee

Co-authors: Donglin Zeng (University of Michigan), Michael Hudgens (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Causal inference Observational study Partial interference Right censoring Stochastic policy Treatment effect

Heterogeneous Causal Mediation Analysis Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees

9:55 AM - 10:15 AM

Chen Liu (University of Pittsburgh)

Co-authors: Xu Qin (University of Pittsburgh), Victor Talisa (University of Pittsburgh), Jiebiao Wang (University of Pittsburgh)

Causal Mediation Analysis; Bayesian Tree Ensembles; Heterogeneous Effects; Non-linear Interactions; Moderation Mechanisms.