Online Causal Inference with Application to Near Real-Time Post-Market Vaccine Safety Surveillance
在线因果推断及其在近实时疫苗上市后安全监测中的应用
Streaming data routinely generated by mobile phones, social networks, e-commerce, and electronic health records present new opportunities for near real-time surveillance of the impact of an intervention on an outcome of interest via causal inference methods. However, as data grow rapidly in volume and velocity, storing and combing data become increasingly challenging. The amount of time and effort spent to update analyses can grow exponentially, which defeats the purpose of…