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Adversarial balancing-based representation learning for causal effect inference with observational data [PDF]

Data mining and knowledge discovery, 2019
Learning causal effects from observational data greatly benefits a variety of domains such as health care, education, and sociology. For instance, one could estimate the impact of a new drug on specific individuals to assist clinical planning and improve
Xin Du, Lei Sun, W. Duivesteijn, Alexander G. Nikolaev, Mykola Pechenizkiy   +4 more
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Bayesian causal discovery for policy decision making

Data & Policy
This paper demonstrates how learning the structure of a Bayesian network, often used to predict and represent causal pathways, can be used to inform policy decision-making.
Catarina Moreira, Ngoc Lan Chi Nguyen, Gilad Francis, Hadi Mohasel Afshar, Anna Lopatnikova, Sally Cripps, Roman Marchant   +6 more
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Causal Effects of Body Mass Index and Maternal Age on Oocyte Maturation in Assisted Reproductive Technology: Model-Average Causal Effect and Bayesian LASSO Method

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2020
Background: Body Mass Index (BMI) and maternal age are related to various disorders of the female reproductive system. This study aimed to estimate the causal effects of BMI and maternal age on the rate of metaphase II oocytes (MII) using a new ...
Ahad ALIZADEH, Reza OMANI-SAMANI, Mohammad Ali MANSOURNIA, Azadeh AKBARI SENE, Abbas RAHIMI FOROUSHANI   +4 more
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Incremental causal effects

, 2019
Causal evidence is needed to act and it is often enough for the evidence to point towards a direction of the effect of an action. For example, policymakers might be interested in estimating the effect of slightly increasing taxes on private spending across the whole population.
Rothenhäusler, Dominik, Yu, Bin
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Stressful Events Reported by Childhood Cancer Survivors and Community Controls From the St. Jude Lifetime (SJLIFE) Cohort: A Mixed Method Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Characterizing stressful events reported by childhood cancer survivors experienced throughout the lifespan may help improve trauma‐informed care relevant to the survivor experience. Methods Participants included 2552 survivors (54% female; 34 years of age) and 469 community controls (62% female; 33 years of age) from the St.
Megan E. Ware, Colter K. Clayton, Fang Wang, Sedigheh Mirzaei, Kyla Shelton, Tara M. Brinkman, Victoria Willard, Katianne M. Howard Sharp, Kevin Krull, Lindsay F. Schwartz, Melissa M. Hudson, Gregory T. Armstrong, Kirsten K. Ness, Rachel T. Webster   +13 more
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The association of maternal smoking around birth with chronic respiratory diseases in adult offspring: A Mendelian randomization study

Tobacco Induced Diseases
Introduction Maternal smoking during pregnancy disturbs fetal lung development, and induces in their offspring childhood respiratory diseases. Whether it has a continued impact on offspring adult lung health and exerts a casual effect of chronic ...
Yun-Xia Huo, Xiao-Jun Wang, Wei-Dong Hu, Chaoyan Yue   +3 more
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Information Bottleneck for Estimating Treatment Effects with Systematically Missing Covariates

Entropy, 2020
Estimating the effects of an intervention from high-dimensional observational data is a challenging problem due to the existence of confounding. The task is often further complicated in healthcare applications where a set of observations may be entirely ...
Sonali Parbhoo, Mario Wieser, Aleksander Wieczorek, Volker Roth   +3 more
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Unheard and Under‐Supported: Health‐Related Quality of Life in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Sickle Cell Disease

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive hemoglobinopathy affecting millions of individuals worldwide. The clinical expression and psychosocial burden of SCD vary widely across geographical, cultural, and healthcare system contexts, underscoring the need for setting‐specific approaches to assessment.
Desiré Fantasia, Giulia Reggiani, Elizabeth J. Maran, Maria Elisa Delle Fave, Ilaria Baido, Anna Chiara Frigo, Maria Paola Boaro, Raffaella Colombatti   +7 more
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Association between sleep-related phenotypes and gut microbiota: a two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization study

Frontiers in Microbiology
BackgroundAn increasing body of evidence suggests a profound interrelation between the microbiome and sleep-related concerns. Nevertheless, current observational studies can merely establish their correlation, leaving causality unexplored.Study ...
Xiaoqiu Wang, Chi Wang, Kai Liu, Qingyun Wan, Wenzhong Wu, Chengyong Liu   +5 more
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Bayesian Diallel Analysis Reveals Mx1-Dependent and Mx1-Independent Effects on Response to Influenza A Virus in Mice

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2018
Influenza A virus (IAV) is a respiratory pathogen that causes substantial morbidity and mortality during both seasonal and pandemic outbreaks. Infection outcomes in unexposed populations are affected by host genetics, but the host genetic architecture is
Paul L. Maurizio, Martin T. Ferris, Gregory R. Keele, Darla R. Miller, Ginger D. Shaw, Alan C. Whitmore, Ande West, Clayton R. Morrison, Kelsey E. Noll, Kenneth S. Plante, Adam S. Cockrell, David W. Threadgill, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Ralph S. Baric, Mark T. Heise, William Valdar   +15 more
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