Some Doubly and Multiply Robust Estimators of Controlled Direct Effects

11/18/2020
by   Xiang Zhou, et al.
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This letter introduces several doubly, triply, and quadruply robust estimators of the controlled direct effect. Among them, the triply and quadruply robust estimators are locally semiparametric efficient, and well suited to the use of data-adaptive methods for estimating their nuisance functions.

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