Energy Balancing of Covariate Distributions for Estimation of Causal Effects

Date: 
March 22, 2023
Time: 
3:00 - 4:00pm
Place: 
via Zoom

Bias in the estimation of causal effects is a function of distributional imbalance of covariates between treatment groups. This talk introduces a novel weighting method explicitly designed to balance weighted covariate distributions, thus targeting the source of bias. This weighting strategy provides a model- free and tuning parameter- free approach for causal comparisons. It can be flexibly utilized in a wide variety of downstream causal analyses, such as the estimation of average treatment effects, individualized treatment rules and more.

 

Speaker: Jared Huling, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota School of Public Health

 

 

To obtain Zoom link please email: [email protected]

 

Event Type: 
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Seminar