The additive hazard estimator is consistent for continuous-time marginal structural models

DOI10.1007/S10985-019-09468-YMaRDI QIDQ83455zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pål Christie Ryalen, Mats J. Stensrud, Kjetil Røysland, Pål C. Ryalen, Mats J. Stensrud, Kjetil Røysland

Publication date 23 February 2019

Published in Lifetime Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01946

zbMATH Keywords

additive hazard modelscausal inference in survival analysiscontinuous time marginal structural modelscontinuous time weights

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Censored data models (62N01) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Markov processes: hypothesis testing (62M02) Non-Markovian processes: estimation (62M09)

Abstract: Marginal structural models (MSMs) allow for causal analysis of longitudinal data. The MSMs were originally developed as discrete time models. Recently, continuous-time MSMs were presented as a conceptually appealing alternative for survival analysis. In applied analyses, it is often assumed that the theoretical treatment weights are known, but these weights are usually unknown and must be estimated from the data. Here we provide a sufficient condition for a class of continuous-time MSMs to be consistent even when the weights are estimated, and we show how additive hazard models can be used to estimate such weights. Our results suggest that the continuous-time weights perform better than IPTW when the underlying treatment process is continuous. Furthermore, we may wish to transform effect estimates of hazards to other scales that are easier to interpret causally. We show that a general transformation strategy can be used on weighted cumulative hazard estimates to obtain a range of other parameters in survival analysis, and demonstrate how this strategy can be applied on data using our R packages ahw and transform.hazards.

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• ahw
• transform.hazards
• Causal inference with recurrent and competing events
• A martingale approach to continuous-time marginal structural models
• Simulating longitudinal data from marginal structural models using the additive hazard model

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• R

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