{"id":830,"date":"2020-02-24T19:05:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsr.isrt.ac.bd\/?post_type=article&p=830"},"modified":"2020-09-28T17:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T17:48:46","slug":"inference-on-mean-quality-adjusted-lifetime-using-joint-models-for-continuous-quality-of-life-process-and-time-to-event","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/jsr.isrt.ac.bd\/article\/inference-on-mean-quality-adjusted-lifetime-using-joint-models-for-continuous-quality-of-life-process-and-time-to-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Inference on mean quality-adjusted lifetime using joint models for continuous quality of life process and time to event"},"content":{"rendered":"
The estimated a<\/span>v<\/span>erage treatment ef<\/span>fect in observ<\/span>ational studi<\/span>es is biased if the assumptions of ignorability and ov<\/span>erlap are not satis\ufb01ed. T<\/span>o deal with this potential problem when propensity score weights a<\/span>re used i<\/span>n the est<\/span>imation of the treatment ef<\/span>fects, in this paper we propose a bootstrap bias correction estimator for the a<\/span>v<\/span>erage treatment ef<\/span>fect (A<\/span>TE) obtained with the in<\/span>v<\/span>erse propensity score (BBC-IPS) estimator<\/span>. W<\/span>e sho<\/span>w in simulations that the BBC-IPC performs well when we ha<\/span>v<\/span>e misspeci\ufb01cations of the propensity score (PS) due to: omitted v<\/span>ariables (ignorability property may not be satis\ufb01ed), ov<\/span>erlap (imbalances in distrib<\/span>ution between treatment and control groups) and confounding ef<\/span>fects between observ<\/span>ables and unobserv<\/span>ables (endogeneity). Further re\ufb01nements in bias reductions of the A<\/span>TE estimates in smaller samples are attained by iterating the BBC-IPS estimator<\/span>.<\/p>\n Fulltext: <\/a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.47302\/jsr.2019530205<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The estimated average treatment effect in observational studies is biased if the assumptions of ignorability and overlap are not satis\ufb01ed. To deal with this potential problem when propensity score weights are used in the estimation of the treatment effects, in this paper we propose a bootstrap bias correction estimator for the average treatment effect (ATE) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[26],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n