Using Propensity Scores to Develop and Evaluate Treatment Rules with Observational Data

05/29/2019
by   Jeremy Roth, et al.
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In this paper, we outline a principled approach to estimate an individualized treatment rule that is appropriate for data from observational studies where, in addition to treatment assignment not being independent of individual characteristics, some characteristics may affect treatment assignment in the current study but not be available in future clinical settings where the estimated rule would be applied. The estimation framework is quite flexible and accommodates any prediction method that uses observation weights, where the observation weights themselves are a ratio of two flexibly estimated propensity scores. We also discuss how to obtain a trustworthy estimate of the rule's population benefit based on simple propensity-score-based estimators of average treatment effect. We implement our approach in the R package DevTreatRules and share the code needed to reproduce our results on GitHub.

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