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ArticleStatistics in medicine2021

A machine learning compatible method for ordinal propensity score stratification and matching.

Thomas J Greene, Stacia M DeSantis, Derek W Brown, Anna V Wilkinson, Michael D Swartz

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Thomas J GreeneBiostatistics, GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5108-713X
Stacia M DeSantisDepartment of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3400-1031
Derek W BrownIntegrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8393-1713
Anna V WilkinsonDepartment of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health in Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
Michael D SwartzDepartment of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA.

Funding

Training Program in Biostatistics at UTHSCH-SPHT32GM074902 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI DESANTIS, STACIA · 2006 to 2018
$1.4M
Bio-Behavioral Smoking Profiles in Mexican Origin YouthK07CA126988 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI WILKINSON, ANNA VICTORIA · 2008 to 2012
$753k
NCI NIH HHS K07 CA126988NCI NIH HHS K07CA126988NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM074902NIGMS NIH HHS T32GM074902
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Abstract

Although machine learning techniques that estimate propensity scores for observational studies with multivalued treatments have advanced rapidly in recent years, the development of propensity score adjustment techniques has not kept pace. While machine learning propensity models provide numerous benefits, they do not produce a single variable balancing score that can be used for propensity score stratification and matching. This issue motivates the development of a flexible ordinal propensity scoring methodology that does not require parametric assumptions for the propensity model. The proposed method fits a one-parameter power function to the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the generalized propensity score (GPS) vector resulting from any machine learning propensity model, and is henceforth called the GPS-CDF method. The estimated parameter from the GPS-CDF method,

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Machine LearningResearch DesignAdolescentCausalityChildComputer SimulationHumansPropensity Scorecausal inferenceobservational dataordinal treatmentsmoking experimentation

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PMID33352615
PMCPMC8919399

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