Balancing Weights for Causal Inference in Observational Factorial Studies
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观察性析因研究中用于因果推断的平衡权重
- 研究问题
- 当多个处理因素产生大量组合，部分组合稀少或偶然缺失时，如何用观察性数据同时估计各因素的主效应和交互效应？
- 方法与思路
- 作者提出面向多因素研究的加权方法，以加权数据模拟随机析因实验，同时平衡协变量与处理因素，并扩展到缺失处理组合。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，仅平衡协变量不足以无偏估计析因效应，还需平衡因素；研究给出权重估计量的渐近分析及一致方差估计方法。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对因素平衡的具体含义、因果识别条件，以及缺失组合下可估计效应的范围、权重稳定性和方差估计条件。
- 阅读边界
- 依据 arXiv 2310.04660v3 预印本摘要，不能据此确认同行评审或期刊接收；未说明缺失组合的处理条件，不能推出所有析因效应均可识别。
原文摘要
Many scientific questions in biomedical, environmental, and psychological research involve understanding the effects of multiple factors on outcomes. While factorial experiments are ideal for this purpose, randomized controlled treatment assignment is generally infeasible in many empirical studies. Therefore, investigators must rely on observational data, where drawing reliable causal inferences for multiple factors remains challenging. As the number of treatment combinations grows exponentially with the number of factors, some treatment combinations can be rare or missing by chance in observed data, further complicating factorial effects estimation. To address these challenges, we propose a novel weighting method tailored to observational studies with multiple factors. Our approach uses weighted observational data to emulate a randomized factorial experiment, enabling simultaneous estimation of the effects of multiple factors and their interactions. Our investigations reveal a crucial nuance: achieving balance among covariates, as in single-factor scenarios, is necessary but insufficient for unbiasedly estimating factorial effects; balancing the factors is also essential in multi-factor settings. Moreover, we extend our weighting method to handle missing treatment combinations in observed data. Finally, we study the asymptotic behavior of the new weighting estimators and propose a consistent variance estimator, providing reliable inferences on factorial effects in observational studies.