Estimating a Causal Exposure Response Function with a Continuous Error-Prone Exposure: A Study of Fine Particulate Matter and All-Cause Mortality

Kevin P. Josey (), Priyanka deSouza, Xiao Wu, Danielle Braun and Rachel Nethery
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Kevin P. Josey: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Priyanka deSouza: University of Colorado
Xiao Wu: Stanford University
Danielle Braun: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Rachel Nethery: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 2023, vol. 28, issue 1, No 2, 20-41

Abstract: Abstract Numerous studies have examined the associations between long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM $$_{2.5}$$ 2.5 ) and adverse health outcomes. Recently, many of these studies have begun to employ high-resolution predicted PM $$_{2.5}$$ 2.5 concentrations, which are subject to measurement error. Previous approaches for exposure measurement error correction have either been applied in non-causal settings or have only considered a categorical exposure. Moreover, most procedures have failed to account for uncertainty induced by error correction when fitting an exposure response function (ERF). To remedy these deficiencies, we develop a multiple imputation framework that combines regression calibration and Bayesian techniques to estimate a causal ERF. We demonstrate how the output of the measurement error correction steps can be seamlessly integrated into a Bayesian additive regression trees (BART) estimator of the causal ERF. We also demonstrate how kernel-weighted smoothing of the posterior samples from BART can be used to create a more accurate ERF estimate. Our proposed approach also properly propagates the exposure measurement error uncertainty to yield accurate standard error estimates. We assess the robustness of our proposed approach in an extensive simulation study. We then apply our methodology to estimate the effects of PM $$_{2.5}$$ 2.5 on all-cause mortality among Medicare enrollees in New England from 2000 to 2012. Supplementary materials accompanying this paper appear on-line

Keywords: Measurement Error; Causal Inference; Multiple Imputation; Air Pollution; Environmental Epidemiology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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