Continuous Treatment Effects with Surrogate Outcomes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00168v2
• Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 19:07:45 GMT
• Title: Continuous Treatment Effects with Surrogate Outcomes
• Authors: Zhenghao Zeng, David Arbour, Avi Feller, Raghavendra Addanki, Ryan Rossi, Ritwik Sinha, Edward H. Kennedy,
• Abstract summary: We study the role of surrogates in estimating continuous treatment effects. We propose a doubly robust method to efficiently incorporate surrogates in the analysis.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In many real-world causal inference applications, the primary outcomes (labels) are often partially missing, especially if they are expensive or difficult to collect. If the missingness depends on covariates (i.e., missingness is not completely at random), analyses based on fully observed samples alone may be biased. Incorporating surrogates, which are fully observed post-treatment variables related to the primary outcome, can improve estimation in this case. In this paper, we study the role of surrogates in estimating continuous treatment effects and propose a doubly robust method to efficiently incorporate surrogates in the analysis, which uses both labeled and unlabeled data and does not suffer from the above selection bias problem. Importantly, we establish the asymptotic normality of the proposed estimator and show possible improvements on the variance compared with methods that solely use labeled data. Extensive simulations show our methods enjoy appealing empirical performance.

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