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@wu2025promises consider a case with multiple randomized controlled trials(RCTs), where data are $(G,A,Y)$, $G$ is the indicator of RCTs, $A$ is the treatment, $Y$ is the outcome.
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Under consistency, positivity, and exchangeability. Adding one assumption called "transportability":
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Under consistency, positivity, and exchangeability, Adding one assumption called "transportability":
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$ Y(1) perp G | Y(0) $
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We can then identify the conditional distribution $Y(1) | Y(0)$.
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$serif(Pr)(Y(1) = b | G = g) & = sum_(a)serif(Pr)(Y(1) = b, Y(0) = a | G = g) serif(Pr)(Y(0) = a | G = g ) \
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& = sum_(a)serif(Pr)(Y(1) = b | Y(0) = a) serif(Pr)( Y(0) = a | G = g) $
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serif(Pr)(Y(1) = b | G = g) & = sum_(a)serif(Pr)(Y(1) = b, Y(0) = a | G = g) serif(Pr)(Y(0) = a | G = g ) \
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& = sum_(a)serif(Pr)(Y(1) = b | Y(0) = a) serif(Pr)( Y(0) = a | G = g)
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$
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Here $serif(Pr)(Y(1) = b | G = g)$ and $serif(Pr)( Y(0) = a | G = g)$ can be identified form data by the consistency, positivity and unconfounder assumption, using them to solve the above equation system, we can identify $serif(Pr)(Y(1) = b | Y(0) = a)$.
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=== Instrumental variable
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@levis2025covariate
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- data are $(X,A,Z,Y)$ only assume consistency, positivity, unconfounder, exculusion, no monotonicity, provide a bound estimation on ATE.
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- The identification assumption of IV:
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#quote([ Critically, under the four assumptions introduced in the previous section, the ATE is not point
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identified. Analysts typically take one of two approaches for point identification. The first
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approach invokes some type of homogeneity assumptions and places various restrictions on
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how the effects of A and Z vary from unit to unit in the study population. See Hernan and
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Robins (2019) and Wang and Tchetgen Tchetgen (2018) for prominent examples. However,
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homogeneity assumptions are often implausible or difficult to verify in specific applications.
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The second approach invokes an assumption known as monotonicity, which has the following
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form: A(z = 1) ≥ A(z = 0), i.e., if A(z = 0) = 1 then A(z = 1) = 1 (Imbens and Angrist,
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1994). Under monotonicity, the target estimand is no longer the ATE, but instead is the local
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average treatment effect (LATE):])
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- The lower bound and upper bound is not a differentiable functional, thus an assumption is invoked to make the bound functional differentiable and thus have inference function to faster convergence rate.
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Here $serif(Pr)(Y(1) = b | G = g)$ and $serif(Pr)( Y(0) = a | G = g)$ can be identified form data by the consistency assumption, using them to solve the above equation system, we can identify $serif(Pr)(Y(1) = b | Y(0) = a)$.
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== The equivalence between DAG and potential outcome framework
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=== Bell inequality
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== Instrumental variable
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@levis2025covariate
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- data are $(X,A,Z,Y)$ only assume consistency, positivity, unconfounder, exculusion, no monotonicity, provide a bound estimation on ATE.
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#quote([ Critically, under the four assumptions introduced in the previous section, the ATE is not point
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identified. Analysts typically take one of two approaches for point identification. The first
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approach invokes some type of homogeneity assumptions and places various restrictions on
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how the effects of A and Z vary from unit to unit in the study population. See Hernan and
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Robins (2019) and Wang and Tchetgen Tchetgen (2018) for prominent examples. However,
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homogeneity assumptions are often implausible or difficult to verify in specific applications.
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The second approach invokes an assumption known as monotonicity, which has the following
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form: A(z = 1) ≥ A(z = 0), i.e., if A(z = 0) = 1 then A(z = 1) = 1 (Imbens and Angrist,
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1994). Under monotonicity, the target estimand is no longer the ATE, but instead is the local
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average treatment effect (LATE):])
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- The lower bound and upper bound is not a differentiable functional, thus an assumption is invoked to make the bound functional differentiable and thus have inference function to faster convergence rate.
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