Causal effect on the number of life years lost due to a specific event: Average treatment effect and variable importance
特定事件导致寿命损失年数的因果效应:平均处理效应与变量重要性
Competing risk is a common phenomenon when dealing with time-to-event outcomes in biostatistical applications. An attractive estimand in this setting is the "number of life-years lost due to a specific cause of death", Andersen et al. (2013). It provides a direct interpretation on the time-scale on which the data is observed. In this paper, we introduce the causal effect on the number of life years lost due to a specific event, and we give assumptions under which the average…