Multiple robustness estimation in causal inference

Lei Wang

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2019, vol. 48, issue 23, 5701-5718

Abstract: Estimation of average treatment effect is crucial in causal inference for evaluation of treatments or interventions in biostatistics, epidemiology, econometrics, sociology. However, existing estimators require either a propensity score model, an outcome vector model, or both is correctly specified, which is difficult to verify in practice. In this paper, we allow multiple models for both the propensity score models and the outcome models, and then construct a weighting estimator based on observed data by using two-sample empirical likelihood. The resulting estimator is consistent if any one of those multiple models is correctly specified, and thus provides multiple protection on consistency. Moreover, the proposed estimator can attain the semiparametric efficiency bound when one propensity score model and one outcome vector model are correctly specified, without requiring knowledge of which models are correct. Simulations are performed to evaluate the finite sample performance of the proposed estimators. As an application, we analyze the data collected from the AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 175.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2018.1520881

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