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SUMMARY:(Colloquium) Katherine Brumberg\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Talk\nKatherine Brumberg\, University of Pennsylvania\, Wharton School\nMonday November 6\, 2023 at 4PM\nRocky  312 \nTitle: Optimal Stratification to Address Selection Bias in Observational Studies \nAbstract: Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for determining a treatment effect. However\, they are oftentimes too costly\, infeasible\, or unethical to carry out. In such situations\, we turn to observational studies\, where the treatment assignment is not randomized. This results in selection bias\, leading to incomparable treatment and control groups. One of the most common techniques to address this is propensity score stratification\, where we form strata that contain both treated and control individuals who look similar initially so that we can calculate a treatment effect within each stratum. However\, propensity score stratification may leave residual imbalances in the covariate distributions between the treated and control groups. Our new technique of optimal refinement addresses this by splitting each propensity score stratum in two in such a way that optimizes the resulting covariate balance. \n\nIn this talk\, we will assume no background knowledge\, starting with a brief overview of the foundational ideas of randomized controlled trials\, observational studies\, stratification\, propensity scores\, and standardized mean differences.  We will then move to discussing our new technique of optimal refinement. We will start by carefully defining the objective as an integer program. Because solving integer programs is often computationally intractable\, we will use randomized rounding\, an approximation algorithm\, to obtain a provably good solution. We will look at the performance of this method both in simulations and via a real-world example studying the effect of right heart catheterization on 30-day mortality.
URL:https://pages.vassar.edu/mathstats/event/colloquium-katherine-brumberg-university-of-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:Rockefeller Hall 312
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