Publications

NEW: 2024 Post-Doctoral Fellowship opening to work on applied causal inference for the Social and Behavioral Sciences!

Elizabeth A. Stuart

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Sensitivity analysis for principal ignorability violation in estimating complier and noncomplier average causal effects

An important strategy for identifying principal causal effects (popular estimands in settings with noncompliance) is to invoke the …

Trang Quynh Nguyen, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Daniel O. Scharfstein, Elizabeth L. Ogburn

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Practical challenges in mediation analysis: a guide for applied researchers

Mediation analysis is a statistical approach that can provide insights regarding the intermediary processes by which an intervention or …

Megan S. Schuler, Donna L. Coffman, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Trang Q. Nguyen, Brian Vegetabile, Daniel F. McCaffrey

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Methods for Integrating Trials and Non-experimental Data to Examine Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Estimating treatment effects conditional on observed covariates can improve the ability to tailor treatments to particular individuals. …

Carly Lupton Brantner, Ting-Hsuan Chang, Trang Quynh Nguyen, Hwanhee Hong, Leon Di Stefano, Elizabeth A. Stuart

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Development of the TrAnsparent ReportinG of observational studies Emulating a Target trial (TARGET) guideline

Background - There is concern that state laws to curb opioid prescribing may adversely affect patients with chronic noncancer pain, but …

Harrison J Hansford, Aidan G Cashin, Matthew D Jones, Sonja A Swanson, Nazrul Islam, Issa J Dahabreh, Barbra A Dickerman, Matthias Egger, Xavier Garcia-Albeniz, Robert M Golub, Sara Lodi, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Sallie-Anne Pearson, Sebastian Schneeweiss, Jonathan Sterne, Melissa K Sharp, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Miguel A Hernan, Hopin Lee, James H McAuley

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