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History-Adjusted Marginal Structural Models and Statically-Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes

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  • Mark van der Laan

    (Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley)

  • Maya Petersen

    (Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley)

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Marginal structural models (MSM) provide a powerful tool for estimating the causal effect of a treatment. These models, introduced by Robins (e.g. Robins (2000a), Robins (2000b), van der Laan and Robins (2002)), model the marginal distributions of treatment-specific counterfactual outcomes, possibly conditional on a subset of the baseline covariates. Marginal structural models are particularly useful in the context of longitudinal data structures, in which each subject's treatment and covariate history are measured over time, and an outcome is recorded at a final time point. However, the utility of these models for some applications has been limited by their inability to incorporate modification of the causal effect of treatment by time-varying covariates. Particularly in the context of clinical decision making, such time-varying effect modifiers are often of considerable or even primary interest, as they are used in practice to guide treatment decisions for an individual. In this article we propose a generalization of marginal structural models, which we call history-adjusted marginal structural models (HA-MSM). These models allow estimation of adjusted causal effects of treatment, given the observed past, and are therefore more suitable for making treatment decisions at the individual level and for identification of time-dependent effect modifiers. Specifically, a HA-MSM models the conditional distribution of treatment-specific counterfactual outcomes, conditional on the whole or a subset of the observed past up till a time-point, simultaneously for all time-points. Double robust inverse probability of treatment weighted estimators have been developed and studied in detail for standard MSM(Robins (2000b), van der Laan and Neugebauer (2004), Yu and van der Laan (2003), van der Laan and Robins (2002)). We extend these results by proposing a class of double robust inverse probability of treatment weighted estimators for the unknown parameters of the HA-MSM. In addition, we show that the HA-MSM provides a natural approach to identifying the dynamic treatment regime which follows, at each time-point, the history-adjusted (up till the most recent time point) optimal static treatment regime. We illustrate our results using an example drawn from the treatment of HIV infection.

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  • Mark van der Laan & Maya Petersen, 2004. "History-Adjusted Marginal Structural Models and Statically-Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes," U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series 1158, Berkeley Electronic Press.
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