Bayesian additive regression trees for evaluating treatment benefit predictors using observational data
用贝叶斯加性回归树评估观察数据中的治疗获益预测器
A treatment benefit predictor (TBP) is an algorithm that maps a patient's characteristics to their putative benefit from a given treatment, which can be used to inform treatment decisions. However, a TBP must be evaluated in the target population before being adopted for patient care. When only observational data are available, evaluating TBPs requires standard causal identification assumptions, as treatment assignment in such settings is not random. We obtain the posterior…