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ArticleBiometrics2024

Causal inference using multivariate generalized linear mixed-effects models.

Yizhen Xu, Ji Soo Kim, Laura K Hummers, Ami A Shah, Scott L Zeger

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Article in Biometrics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Yizhen XuDivision of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4650-5851
Ji Soo KimDivision of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States.
Laura K HummersDivision of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States.
Ami A ShahDivision of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States.
Scott L ZegerDepartment of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States.

Funding

Sample Processing and Immunoassay Research CoreP30AR070254 · NIAMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Antony Rosen · 2016 to 2026
$8.9M
Harnessing multivariate patient- and population-level disease trajectories to predict major clinical events in sclerodermaK24AR080217 · NIAMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Ami Aalok Shah · 2022 to 2026
$847k
NIAMS NIH HHS K24 AR080217NIAMS NIH HHS P30 AR070254NIH HHS P30AR070254NIH/NIAMS K24AR080217
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dynamic prediction of causal effects under different treatment regimens is an essential problem in precision medicine. It is challenging because the actual mechanisms of treatment assignment and effects are unknown in observational studies. We propose a multivariate generalized linear mixed-effects model and a Bayesian g-computation algorithm to calculate the posterior distribution of subgroup-specific intervention benefits of dynamic treatment regimes. Unmeasured time-invariant factors are included as subject-specific random effects in the assumed joint distribution of outcomes, time-varying confounders, and treatment assignments. We identify a sequential ignorability assumption conditional on treatment assignment heterogeneity, that is, analogous to balancing the latent treatment preference due to unmeasured time-invariant factors. We present a simulation study to assess the proposed method's performance. The method is applied to observational clinical data to investigate the efficacy of continuously using mycophenolate in different subgroups of scleroderma patients.

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AlgorithmsBayes TheoremComputer SimulationBiometryCausalityHumansLinear ModelsMultivariate AnalysisMycophenolic AcidObservational Studies as TopicPrecision MedicineMycophenolic Acidg-computation algorithmlatent variable modelinglongitudinal causal inferencemixed-effects models

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