STATISTICAL METHODS FOR PARTIALLY CONTROLLED STUDIES

Principal Investigator:    Constantine E. Frangakis

Co-Investigator:            Donald B. Rubin

Sponsoring Agency:      National Eye Institute

This grant's objective is to develop methods for evaluating treatments in studies with no direct control of the treatments, but with control of other factors useful to assess those treatments. Applications of  interest include evaluating needle exchange using distance, and evaluating surrogate endpoints in ophthalmology and cancer trials.
 

PROGRESS REPORTS:    2003-2004 (doc)

SELECTED PAPERS

Framework of principal stratification for causal inference in partially controlled studies:
Frangakis, CE, and Rubin, DB (2002)  Principal stratification  in causal inference. Biometrics, 58, 21-29.

School Choice Voucher Evaluation using principal stratification:
Barnard, J, Frangakis, CE, Hill, JL, Rubin, DB.  (2003).  A principal stratification approach to broken randomized experiments: a case study of School Choice vouchers in New York City.     Journal of the    American Statistical Association (with discussion) 98, 299-323. [ Full text - PDF]

Evaluation of needle exchange using principal stratification:
Frangakis, CE, Brookmeyer, RS, Varadhan, R, Mahboobeh, S,  Vlahov, D, and Strathdee, SA. (2004). Methodology for evaluating a partially controlled longitudinal treatment using principal stratification, with application to a Needle Exchange Program.  Forthcoming in the Journal of   the American Statistical  Association (with discussion). [ Full text - PDF]

Direct and indirect effects.
Rubin (2004). Direct and Indirect Causal Effects Via Potential Outcomes.  To appear in the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, with discussion and reply.

Censoring by death.
Zhang, J. L. Rubin, D. B. (2003). Estimation of Causal Effects via Principal Stratification When Some Outcomes Are Truncated By ‘Death’.  Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 28, 353-368.

Length Bias and Efficiency of case-crossover designs.

Varadhan, R, and Frangakis, C. E. (2004). Revealing and addressing length-bias and heterogeneous effects in frequency case-crossover studies. To appear in the  American Journal of Epidemiology. Available at :

http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~cfrangak/papers/case_crossover/crossover01_16.pdf

    

Propensity scores.

Rubin, D.B. (2003). Taking causality seriously: propensity score methodology applied to estimate the effects of marking interventions.  Machine Learning: ECMC 2003.  14th European Conference on Machine Learning.  (N. Lavrae, D. Gamberger, H. Blockeel, and L. Todorovski (eds.)).  New York: Springer Verlag, pp. 16-22.  also in Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2003.  7th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases.  (N. Lavrae, D. Gamberger, L. Todorovski and H. Blockeel (eds.)).  New York: Springer Verlag, pp. 16-22.


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