期刊
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
卷 116, 期 533, 页码 162-173出版社
AMER STATISTICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2020.1783272
关键词
Complier optimal regimes; Instrumental variable; Optimal treatment regimes; Precision medicine; Unmeasured confounding
资金
- NIH [R01CA222147, R01AI127271]
There is a fast-growing literature on estimating optimal treatment regimes based on randomized trials or observational studies under a key identifying condition of no unmeasured confounding. Because confounding by unmeasured factors cannot generally be ruled out with certainty in observational studies or randomized trials subject to noncompliance, we propose a general instrumental variable (IV) approach to learning optimal treatment regimes under endogeneity. Specifically, we establish identification of both value functionfor a given regimeand optimal regimeswith the aid of a binary IV, when no unmeasured confounding fails to hold. We also construct novel multiply robust classification-based estimators. Furthermore, we propose to identify and estimate optimal treatment regimes among those who would comply to the assigned treatment under a monotonicity assumption. In this latter case, we establish the somewhat surprising result that complier optimal regimes can be consistently estimated without directly collecting compliance information and therefore without the complier average treatment effect itself being identified. Our approach is illustrated via extensive simulation studies and a data application on the effect of child rearing on labor participation.for this article are available online.
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