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Joint sufficient dimension reduction and estimation of conditional and average treatment effects

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  • Ming-Yueh Huang
  • Kwun Chuen Gary Chan

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SummaryThe estimation of treatment effects based on observational data usually involves multiple confounders, and dimension reduction is often desirable and sometimes inevitable. We first clarify the definition of a central subspace that is relevant for the efficient estimation of average treatment effects. A criterion is then proposed to simultaneously estimate the structural dimension, the basis matrix of the joint central subspace, and the optimal bandwidth for estimating the conditional treatment effects. The method can easily be implemented by forward selection. Semiparametric efficient estimation of average treatment effects can be achieved by averaging the conditional treatment effects with a different data-adaptive bandwidth to ensure optimal undersmoothing. Asymptotic properties of the estimated joint central subspace and the corresponding estimator of average treatment effects are studied. The proposed methods are applied to a nutritional study, where the covariate dimension is reduced from 11 to an effective dimension of one.

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  • Ming-Yueh Huang & Kwun Chuen Gary Chan, 2017. "Joint sufficient dimension reduction and estimation of conditional and average treatment effects," Biometrika, Biometrika Trust, vol. 104(3), pages 583-596.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:biomet:v:104:y:2017:i:3:p:583-596.
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