Causal interaction trees: Finding subgroups with heterogeneous treatment effects in observational data
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DOI10.1111/BIOM.13432zbMATH Open1520.62385arXiv2003.03042OpenAlexW3127592970MaRDI QIDQ6079481FDOQ6079481
Authors: Issa J. Dahabreh, Jon Arni Steingrimsson 
Publication date: 30 October 2023
Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We propose Causal Interaction Trees for identifying subgroups of participants that have enhanced treatment effects using observational data. We extend the Classification and Regression Tree algorithm by using splitting criteria that focus on maximizing between-group treatment effect heterogeneity based on subgroup-specific treatment effect estimators to dictate decision-making in the algorithm. We derive properties of three subgroup-specific treatment effect estimators that account for the observational nature of the data -- inverse probability weighting, g-formula and doubly robust estimators. We study the performance of the proposed algorithms using simulations and implement the algorithms in an observational study that evaluates the effectiveness of right heart catheterization on critically ill patients.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03042
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