Modern Methods for Causal Inference, Transportability, and Heterogeneous Effects

Wed, Aug 5, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM Room CC-108 Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center

Mohammed QuaziChair

Health Policy Statistics Section

7 Presentations

A Reweighted, One-Shot Distributed Approach to Assessing Effect Modification for Broader Estimands

8:35 AM - 8:50 AM

Rong Zhao (Penn State University)

Co-authors: Vernon Chinchilli (Penn State University, Dept. of Public Health Sciences), Chixiang Chen (University of Maryland School of Medicine)

Effect Modification Federated Learning Retargeted Population Bootstrap Selection

A Structured Difference-in-Differences Approach to Estimating Spatially-Decaying Intervention Effects

8:50 AM - 9:05 AM

RJ Waken (Washington University in Saint Louis)

Co-authors: Fengxian Wang (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine), Jonah Graves (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine), Karen Joynt Maddox (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine)

causal inference health policy heterogeneity spillover spatial statistics

Causal Inference for Intervention Spillover in Stepped Wedge Cluster-randomized Trials

9:05 AM - 9:20 AM

James O'Malley (Dartmouth University, Geisel School of Medicine)

Co-authors: Carly Bobak

Spillover Contamination Contagion Peer-effect Stepped wedge cluster-randomized trial Physician social network

Estimation of heterogeneous principal effects under principal ignorability

9:20 AM - 9:35 AM

Rui Zhang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Co-authors: Charles Doss (University of Minnesota), Jared Huling (University of Minnesota)

Complier effects Double robustness Effect heterogeneity Influence functions Nonparametric smoothing Principal stratification

Improve Difference-in-Differences Under Limited Overlap and Heterogeneous Effects with Matching

9:35 AM - 9:50 AM

Yin Zhang (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)

Co-authors: Bin Huang (Cincinnati Children's Medical Center), Tingting Qiu (Xiamen Innovax Biotech Co., Ltd.), Andy Beck (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)

Health services research Heterogenous treatment effects Lack of overlap time-varying confounding Matching Difference-in-Differences

Robust estimation for transporting causal effects from RCTs to a convenience sample

9:50 AM - 10:05 AM

Katherine Li (University of Minnesota)

Co-authors: David Vock (University of Minnesota), Varsha Parag (University of Auckland), Chris Bullen (University of Auckland), Olaoluwakitan Babalola (Wake Forest University School of Medicine), Heidi Beckerich (Wake Forest University School of Medicine), Michael Chaiton (University of Toronto), Rounak Haddadi (University of Auckland), Emily Harwood (Wake Forest University School of Medicine), Dorothy Hatsukami (University of Minnesota), George Laking (University of Auckland), Cassidy White (Wake Forest University School of Medicine), Rachel Denlinger-Apte (Wake Forest University School of Medicine), Eric Donny (Wake Forest University School of Medicine), Joseph Koopmeiners (University of Minnesota)

Transportability Meta-analysis Convenience sample Nonprobability sample Pseudo-randomization Robust estimation

When One Dataset Is Not Enough: Estimating Causal Effects With Two-Sample Instrumental Variables

10:05 AM - 10:20 AM

Bella Qian (Harvard University)

Two-Sample Instrumental Variables Health Policy Data Integration Propensity Score Weighting Conditional Transportability Casual Inference