Nonparametric Bounds for Evaluating the Clinical Utility of Treatment Rules
评估临床治疗规则效用的非参数界限
Evaluating the value of new clinical treatment rules based on patient characteristics is important but often complicated by hidden confounding factors in observational studies. Standard methods for estimating the average patient outcome if a new rule were universally adopted typically rely on strong, untestable assumptions about these hidden factors. This paper tackles this challenge by developing nonparametric bounds - a range of plausible values - for the expected outcome…