Causal Interaction Trees: Tree-Based Subgroup Identification for Observational Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03042v1
• Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 05:51:27 GMT
• Title: Causal Interaction Trees: Tree-Based Subgroup Identification for Observational Data
• Authors: Jiabei Yang, Issa J. Dahabreh and Jon A. Steingrimsson
• Abstract summary: We propose Causal Interaction Trees for identifying subgroup of participants that have enhanced treatment effects using observational data. We derive properties of three subgroup-specific treatment effect estimators that account for the observational nature of the data. We implement the algorithms in an observational study that evaluates the effectiveness of right heart catheterization on critically ill patients.
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• 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.

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