Two-Stage Least Squares Instrumental Variable Estimation for Semiparametric Accelerated Failure Time Models with Right-Censored Data
右删失数据下半参数加速失效时间模型的两阶段最小二乘工具变量估计
Instrumental variable (IV) analysis is widely used in fields such as economics and epidemiology to address unobserved confounding and measurement error when estimating the causal effects of intermediate covariates on outcomes. However, extending the commonly used two-stage least squares (TSLS) approach to survival settings is nontrivial due to censoring. This paper introduces a novel extension of TSLS to the semiparametric accelerated failure time (AFT) model with…