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Dynamic Local Average Treatment Effects

open access: yesCoRR
We consider Dynamic Treatment Regimes (DTRs) with One Sided Noncompliance that arise in applications such as digital recommendations and adaptive medical trials. These are settings where decision makers encourage individuals to take treatments over time, but adapt encouragements based on previous encouragements, treatments, states, and outcomes ...
Ravi B. Sojitra, Vasilis Syrgkanis
openaire   +3 more sources

Testing for the Unconfoundedness Assumption Using an Instrumental Assumption

open access: yesJournal of Causal Inference, 2014
The identification of average causal effects of a treatment in observational studies is typically based either on the unconfoundedness assumption (exogeneity of the treatment) or on the availability of an instrument.
de Luna Xavier, Johansson Per
doaj   +1 more source

Influences of E-commerce Adoption on Sales performance among Agrochemical Input Dealers in the Ghanaian City

open access: yesCogent Business & Management, 2022
Purpose This study assessed the effect of E-commerce on sales performance of agrochemical input dealers in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.Design/methodology/approach The study utilized both primary and secondary data.
Benjamin Nyarko   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating Conditional Average Treatment Effects with Missing Treatment Information

open access: yesCoRR, 2022
Estimating conditional average treatment effects (CATE) is challenging, especially when treatment information is missing. Although this is a widespread problem in practice, CATE estimation with missing treatments has received little attention. In this paper, we analyze CATE estimation in the setting with missing treatments where unique challenges arise
Kuzmanovic, Milan   +2 more
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Pre-apprenticeship training for young people: Estimating the marginal and average treatment effects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This paper evaluates traineeships, a voluntary programme of work placement and preparation that aims to help young unemployed people in England compete for jobs and apprenticeships.
Stokes, L.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Assumption Trade-Offs When Choosing Identification Strategies for Pre-Post Treatment Effect Estimation: An Illustration of a Community-Based Intervention in Madagascar

open access: yesJournal of Causal Inference, 2015
Failure (or success) in finding a statistically significant effect of a large-scale intervention may be due to choices made in the evaluation. To highlight the potential limitations and pitfalls of some common identification strategies used for ...
Weber Ann M.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Treatment compliance and effectiveness of a cognitive behavioural intervention for low back pain : a complier average causal effect approach to the BeST data set [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: Group cognitive behavioural intervention (CBI) is effective in reducing low-back pain and disability in comparison to advice in primary care.
Hansen, Zara   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

Framework for Evaluating Potential Causes of Health Risk Factors Using Average Treatment Effect and Uplift Modelling

open access: yesAlgorithms, 2023
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of blood cancer that affects both adults and children. Benzene exposure has been reported to increase the risk of developing AML in children.
Daniela Galatro   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nonparametric tests of conditional treatment effects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We develop a general class of nonparametric tests for treatment effects conditional on covariates. We consider a wide spectrum of null and alternative hypotheses regarding conditional treatment effects, including (i) the null hypothesis of the ...
Whang, Yoon-Jae   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Average treatment effect on the probability of food security.

open access: yes, 2023
Average treatment effect on the probability of food security.
Mohammed Aman Ogeto (17015006)   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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