{"title":"Covariate-Balancing-Aware Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Treatment Effect Estimation.","authors":"Kan Chen, Qishuo Yin, Qi Long","doi":"10.1007/s12561-023-09394-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12561-023-09394-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Estimating treatment effects is of great importance for many biomedical applications with observational data. Particularly, interpretability of the treatment effects is preferable for many biomedical researchers. In this paper, we first provide a theoretical analysis and derive an upper bound for the bias of average treatment effect (ATE) estimation under the strong ignorability assumption. Derived by leveraging appealing properties of the weighted energy distance, our upper bound is tighter than what has been reported in the literature. Motivated by the theoretical analysis, we propose a novel objective function for estimating the ATE that uses the energy distance balancing score and hence does not require the correct specification of the propensity score model. We also leverage recently developed neural additive models to improve interpretability of deep learning models used for potential outcome prediction. We further enhance our proposed model with an energy distance balancing score weighted regularization. The superiority of our proposed model over current state-of-the-art methods is demonstrated in semi-synthetic experiments using two benchmark datasets, namely, IHDP and ACIC, as well as is examined through the study of the effect of smoking on the blood level of cadmium using NHANES.</p>","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":"17 1","pages":"132-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11957463/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143765096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chenguang Zhang, Masayuki Nigo, Shivani Patel, Duo Yu, Edward Septimus, Hulin Wu
{"title":"Use of Real-World EMR Data to Rapidly Evaluate Treatment Effects of Existing Drugs for Emerging Infectious Diseases: Remdesivir for COVID-19 Treatment as an Example","authors":"Chenguang Zhang, Masayuki Nigo, Shivani Patel, Duo Yu, Edward Septimus, Hulin Wu","doi":"10.1007/s12561-023-09411-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-023-09411-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":"112 45","pages":"1-30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139391299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph Boyle, Mary H. Ward, Stella Koutros, M. Karagas, M. Schwenn, Alison T. Johnson, Debra T. Silverman, David C. Wheeler
{"title":"Modeling Historic Arsenic Exposures and Spatial Risk for Bladder Cancer","authors":"Joseph Boyle, Mary H. Ward, Stella Koutros, M. Karagas, M. Schwenn, Alison T. Johnson, Debra T. Silverman, David C. Wheeler","doi":"10.1007/s12561-023-09404-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-023-09404-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":"5 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138966433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Considerations and Targeted Approaches to Identifying Bad Actors in Exposure Mixtures","authors":"Alexander P. Keil, Katie M. O’Brien","doi":"10.1007/s12561-023-09409-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-023-09409-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":"6 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139006657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Causal Mediation Tree Model for Feature Identification on High-Dimensional Mediators","authors":"Yao Li, Wei Xu","doi":"10.1007/s12561-023-09402-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-023-09402-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":"79 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138606084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating Effects of Various Exposures on Mortality Risk of Opioid Use Disorders with Linked Administrative Databases","authors":"Trevor J. Thomson, X. Joan Hu, Bohdan Nosyk","doi":"10.1007/s12561-023-09407-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-023-09407-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":" 32","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138616782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kecheng Li, Tugba Akkaya Hocagil, Richard J. Cook, Louise M. Ryan, R. C. Carter, Khue-Dung Dang, J. Jacobson, S. Jacobson
{"title":"Use of Generalized Propensity Scores for Assessing Effects of Multiple Exposures","authors":"Kecheng Li, Tugba Akkaya Hocagil, Richard J. Cook, Louise M. Ryan, R. C. Carter, Khue-Dung Dang, J. Jacobson, S. Jacobson","doi":"10.1007/s12561-023-09403-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-023-09403-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138617119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Estimation of the Effect Lag of Predictors and Prediction in a Functional Linear Model","authors":"Haiyan Liu, Georgios Aivaliotis, Vijay Kumar, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat","doi":"10.1007/s12561-023-09393-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-023-09393-7","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We propose a functional linear model to predict a functional response using multiple functional and longitudinal predictors and to estimate the effect lags of predictors. The coefficient functions are written as the expansion of a basis system (e.g. functional principal components, splines), and the coefficients of the basis functions are estimated via optimizing a penalization criterion. Then effect lags are determined by simultaneously searching on a prior designed grid mesh based on minimization of a proposed prediction error criterion. Mathematical properties of the estimated regression functions and predicted responses are studied. The performance of the method is evaluated by extensive simulations and a real data analysis application on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135341192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bayesian Inference for High Dimensional Cox Models with Gaussian and Diffused-Gamma Priors: A Case Study of Mortality in COVID-19 Patients Admitted to the ICU","authors":"Jiyeon Song, Subharup Guha, Yi Li","doi":"10.1007/s12561-023-09395-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-023-09395-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":"87 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135774370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phillip Shreeves, Jeffrey L. Andrews, Xinchen Deng, Ramie Ali-Adeeb, Andrew Jirasek
{"title":"Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Group and Basis Restrictions","authors":"Phillip Shreeves, Jeffrey L. Andrews, Xinchen Deng, Ramie Ali-Adeeb, Andrew Jirasek","doi":"10.1007/s12561-023-09398-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-023-09398-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":"16 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135726760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}