One-Step Weighting to Generalize and Transport Treatment Effect Estimates to a Target Population

Ambarish Chattopadhyay, Eric R. Cohn and José R. Zubizarreta

The American Statistician, 2024, vol. 78, issue 3, 280-289

Abstract: The problems of generalization and transportation of treatment effect estimates from a study sample to a target population are central to empirical research and statistical methodology. In both randomized experiments and observational studies, weighting methods are often used with this objective. Traditional methods construct the weights by separately modeling the treatment assignment and study selection probabilities and then multiplying functions (e.g., inverses) of their estimates. In this work, we provide a justification and an implementation for weighting in a single step. We show a formal connection between this one-step method and inverse probability and inverse odds weighting. We demonstrate that the resulting estimator for the target average treatment effect is consistent, asymptotically Normal, multiply robust, and semiparametrically efficient. We evaluate the performance of the one-step estimator in a simulation study. We illustrate its use in a case study on the effects of physician racial diversity on preventive healthcare utilization among Black men in California. We provide R code implementing the methodology.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2023.2267598

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