The impact of directly observed therapy on the efficacy of Tuberculosis treatment: A Bayesian multilevel approach
直接督导治疗对结核病疗效的影响:贝叶斯多层方法
We propose and discuss a Bayesian procedure to estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) for multilevel observations in the presence of confounding. We focus on situations where the confounders may be latent (e.g., spatial latent effects). This work is motivated by an interest in determining the causal impact of directly observed therapy (DOT) on the successful treatment of Tuberculosis (TB); the available data correspond to individual-level information observed across…