From real‐world patient data to individualized treatment effects using machine learning: current and future methods to address underlying challenges

I Bica, AM Alaa, C Lambert… - Clinical Pharmacology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Clinical decision making needs to be supported by evidence that treatments are beneficial to
individual patients. Although randomized control trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for …

Causal inference methods for combining randomized trials and observational studies: a review

B Colnet, I Mayer, G Chen, A Dieng, R Li… - Statistical …, 2024 - projecteuclid.org
The supplementary material contains details on treatment effect estimation performed
separately on RCT data (Section A) and on observational data (Section B), derivations of the …

Why are big data matrices approximately low rank?

M Udell, A Townsend - SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 2019 - SIAM
Matrices of (approximate) low rank are pervasive in data science, appearing in movie
preferences, text documents, survey data, medical records, and genomics. While there is a …

Evaluation methods and measures for causal learning algorithms

L Cheng, R Guo, R Moraffah, P Sheth… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The convenient access to copious multifaceted data has encouraged machine learning
researchers to reconsider correlation-based learning and embrace the opportunity of …

Adapting text embeddings for causal inference

V Veitch, D Sridhar, D Blei - Conference on Uncertainty in …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Does adding a theorem to a paper affect its chance of acceptance? Does labeling a post
with the author's gender affect the post popularity? This paper develops a method to …

Using machine learning to identify heterogeneous impacts of agri-environment schemes in the EU: a case study

C Stetter, P Mennig, J Sauer - European Review of Agricultural …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Legislators in the European Union have long been concerned with the
environmental impact of farming activities and introduced so-called agri-environment …

Off-policy evaluation in infinite-horizon reinforcement learning with latent confounders

A Bennett, N Kallus, L Li… - … Conference on Artificial …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Off-policy evaluation (OPE) in reinforcement learning is an important problem in settings
where experimentation is limited, such as healthcare. But, in these very same settings …

Estimating treatment effects from irregular time series observations with hidden confounders

D Cao, J Enouen, Y Wang, X Song, C Meng… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Causal analysis for time series data, in particular estimating individualized treatment effect
(ITE), is a key task in many real world applications, such as finance, retail, healthcare, etc …

[HTML][HTML] Untangling the complexity of multimorbidity with machine learning

A Hassaine, G Salimi-Khorshidi, D Canoy… - Mechanisms of ageing …, 2020 - Elsevier
The prevalence of multimorbidity has been increasing in recent years, posing a major
burden for health care delivery and service. Understanding its determinants and impact is …

Imputation and low-rank estimation with missing not at random data

A Sportisse, C Boyer, J Josse - Statistics and Computing, 2020 - Springer
Missing values challenge data analysis because many supervised and unsupervised
learning methods cannot be applied directly to incomplete data. Matrix completion based on …