Matching-Based Nonparametric Estimation of Group Average Treatment Effects
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基于匹配的组平均处理效应非参数估计
- 研究问题
- 当研究者只关心若干关键协变量定义的群体异质性时，如何估计组平均处理效应，并应对极端倾向得分和高维匹配偏差？
- 方法与思路
- 作者先以匹配插补潜在结局，再进行非参数回归；进一步引入结局回归形成偏差修正匹配估计量，以降低高维协变量导致的偏差。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称偏差修正估计量具有一致性、双重稳健性和渐近正态性，并通过模拟与实际应用展示方法表现，提供 MatchGATE 软件包。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对组效应如何随关键协变量定义、匹配及偏差修正步骤，以及双重稳健性对应的模型组合、重叠要求和高维限制。
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原文摘要
Heterogeneous treatment effects, which vary according to individual covariates, are crucial in fields such as personalized medicine and tailored treatment strategies. In many applications, rather than considering the heterogeneity induced by all covariates, practitioners focus on a few key covariates to develop tailored treatment decisions. Based on this, we aim to estimate the group average treatment effects (GATEs), which represent heterogeneous treatment effects across subpopulations defined by certain key covariates. Previous strategies for estimating GATEs, such as weighting-based and regression-based methods, suffer from instability or extrapolation bias, especially when several propensity scores are close to zero or one. To address these limitations, we propose two novel nonparametric estimation methods: a matching-based method and a bias-corrected matching method for estimating GATEs. The matching-based method imputes potential outcomes using a matching technique, followed by a nonparametric regression. This method avoids the instability caused by extreme propensity scores but may introduce non-negligible bias when the dimension of full covariates is high. To mitigate this, the bias-corrected matching estimator incorporates additional outcome regression models, enhancing robustness and reducing bias. We show the consistency, double robustness, and asymptotic normality of the bias-corrected matching estimator. We empirically demonstrate the advantages of the proposed methods with extensive simulation studies and a real-world application. An open-source R package, MatchGATE, is available to implement the proposed methods.