Search Results for author: Laura B. Balzer

Found 6 papers, 4 papers with code

Adaptive Selection of the Optimal Strategy to Improve Precision and Power in Randomized Trials

1 code implementation31 Oct 2022 Laura B. Balzer, Erica Cai, Lucas Godoy Garraza, Pracheta Amaranath

Benkeser et al. demonstrate how adjustment for baseline covariates in randomized trials can meaningfully improve precision for a variety of outcome types.

A Primer on Causality in Data Science

no code implementations7 Sep 2018 Hachem Saddiki, Laura B. Balzer

Many questions in Data Science are fundamentally causal in that our objective is to learn the effect of some exposure, randomized or not, on an outcome interest.

Causal Inference

Statistical Analysis Plan for SEARCH Phase I: Health Outcomes among Adults

2 code implementations25 Jul 2018 Laura B. Balzer, Diane V. Havlir, Joshua Schwab, Mark J. Van Der Laan, Maya L. Petersen

This document provides the analytic plan for evaluating adult HIV incidence, health, and implementation outcomes for the first phase of the SEARCH Study.

Applications

A new approach to hierarchical data analysis: Targeted maximum likelihood estimation for the causal effect of a cluster-level exposure

no code implementations8 Jun 2017 Laura B. Balzer, Wenjing Zheng, Mark J. Van Der Laan, Maya L. Petersen

Incorporating working assumptions during estimation is more robust than assuming they hold in the underlying causal model.

Methodology

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