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ArticleAdvances in neural information processing systems2025

Data Fusion for Partial Identification of Causal Effects.

Quinn Lanners, Cynthia Rudin, Alexander Volfovsky, Harsh Parikh

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Article in Advances in neural information processing systems, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Quinn LannersDuke University.
Cynthia RudinDuke University.
Alexander VolfovskyDuke University.
Harsh ParikhYale University.

Funding

Design and analysis advances to improve generalizability of clinical trials for treating opioid use disorderR01DA056407 · NIDA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Kara Elizabeth Rudolph, Elizabeth A. Stuart · 2022 to 2026
$3.1M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA056407
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Data fusion techniques integrate information from heterogeneous data sources to improve learning, generalization, and decision-making across data sciences. In causal inference, these methods leverage rich observational data to improve causal effect estimation, while maintaining the trustworthiness of randomized controlled trials. Existing approaches often relax the strong "no unobserved confounding" assumption by instead assuming exchangeability of counterfactual outcomes across data sources. However, when both assumptions simultaneously fail-a common scenario in practice-current methods cannot identify or estimate causal effects. We address this limitation by proposing a novel partial identification framework that enables researchers to answer key questions such as:

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