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Doubly Robust Estimation in Observational Studies with Partial Interference.

Lan Liu, Michael G Hudgens, Bradley Saul, John D Clemens, Mohammad Ali, Michael E Emch

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Article in Stat (International Statistical Institute), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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Lan LiuSchool of Statistics, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, Minnsota, U.S.A.
Michael G HudgensDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Bradley SaulDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
John D ClemensDepartment of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Mohammad AliDepartment of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, U.S.A.
Michael E EmchDepartment of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Funding

Causal Inference in Infectious Disease Prevention StudiesR01AI085073 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HUDGENS, MICHAEL G · 2010 to 2024
$4.5M
Causal Inference in Infectious Disease Prevention StudiesR37AI085073 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Michael G Hudgens · 2026 to 2026
$394k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI085073NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI085073
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interference occurs when the treatment (or exposure) of one individual affects the outcomes of others. In some settings it may be reasonable to assume individuals can be partitioned into clusters such that there is no interference between individuals in different clusters, i.e., there is partial interference. In observational studies with partial interference, inverse probability weighted (IPW) estimators have been proposed of different possible treatment effects. However, the validity of IPW estimators depends on the propensity score being known or correctly modeled. Alternatively, one can estimate the treatment effect using an outcome regression model. In this paper, we propose doubly robust (DR) estimators which utilize both models and are consistent and asymptotically normal if either model, but not necessarily both, is correctly specified. Empirical results are presented to demonstrate the DR property of the proposed estimators, as well as the efficiency gain of DR over IPW estimators when both models are correctly specified. The different estimators are illustrated using data from a study examining the effects of cholera vaccination in Bangladesh.

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Causal InferenceDoubly Robust EstimatorInterferenceObservational Studies

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PMID31440374
PMCPMC6706246

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