Optimal Individualized Decision Rules Using Instrumental Variable Methods
利用工具变量方法构建最优个体化决策规则
There is an extensive literature on the estimation and evaluation of optimal individualized treatment rules in settings where all confounders of the effect of treatment on outcome are observed. We study the development of individualized decision rules in settings where some of these confounders may not have been measured but a valid binary instrument is available for a binary treatment. We first consider individualized treatment rules, which will naturally be most…