Medical Xpress

Local ancestry inference method could improve accuracy of genetic testing and patient diagnoses

Researchers at Texas Children's Neurological Research Institute (NRI) and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a powerful new tool within the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) to sharpen the ...
Diginomica

How causal analysis and AI intersect - methods of causal inference

Our foray into causal analysis is not yet complete. Until we define the methods of causal inference, we can't get to the deeper insights that causal analysis can provide. This article details many of ...
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Causal Inference in Oncology Comparative Effectiveness Research Using Observational Data: Are Instrumental Variables Underutilized?

In the article that accompanies this editorial, Lu et al 5 conducted a systematic review on the use of instrumental variable (IV) methods in oncology comparative effectiveness research. The main ...
umass

Do observational causal inference methods really work?

Over the past several decades, multiple statistical methods have been developed to infer the existence and magnitude of causal effects by analyzing observational data. These methods have been widely ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Causal inference under selection on observables in operations management research: Matching methods and synthetic controls

The majority of recent empirical papers in operations management (OM) employ observational data to investigate the causal effects of a treatment, such as program or policy adoption. However, as ...