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SUBMITTER: Rudolph KE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5784860 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rudolph Kara E KE van der Laan Mark J MJ
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology 20161031 5
We develop robust targeted maximum likelihood estimators (TMLE) for transporting intervention effects from one population to another. Specifically, we develop TMLE estimators for three transported estimands: intent-to-treat average treatment effect (ATE) and complier ATE, which are relevant for encouragement-design interventions and instrumental variable analyses, and the ATE of the exposure on the outcome, which is applicable to any randomized or observational study. We demonstrate finite sampl ...[more]