Debiased maximum-likelihood estimators for hazard ratios under machine-learning adjustment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17686v1
• Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:51:09 GMT
• Title: Debiased maximum-likelihood estimators for hazard ratios under machine-learning adjustment
• Authors: Takashi Hayakawa, Satoshi Asai,
• Abstract summary: We propose abandoning the baseline hazard and using machine learning to explicitly model the change in the risk set with or without latent variables.<n> Numerical simulations confirm that the proposed method identifies the ground truth with minimal bias.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Previous studies have shown that hazard ratios between treatment groups estimated with the Cox model are uninterpretable because the indefinite baseline hazard of the model fails to identify temporal change in the risk set composition due to treatment assignment and unobserved factors among multiple, contradictory scenarios. To alleviate this problem, especially in studies based on observational data with uncontrolled dynamic treatment and real-time measurement of many covariates, we propose abandoning the baseline hazard and using machine learning to explicitly model the change in the risk set with or without latent variables. For this framework, we clarify the context in which hazard ratios can be causally interpreted, and then develop a method based on Neyman orthogonality to compute debiased maximum-likelihood estimators of hazard ratios. Computing the constructed estimators is more efficient than computing those based on weighted regression with marginal structural Cox models. Numerical simulations confirm that the proposed method identifies the ground truth with minimal bias. These results lay the foundation for developing a useful, alternative method for causal inference with uncontrolled, observational data in modern epidemiology.

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