Bayesian effect estimation accounting for adjustment uncertainty |
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Authors: | Wang Chi Parmigiani Giovanni Dominici Francesca |
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Affiliation: | Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, U.S.A. Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, U.S.A. Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, U.S.A. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Summary Model‐based estimation of the effect of an exposure on an outcome is generally sensitive to the choice of which confounding factors are included in the model. We propose a new approach, which we call Bayesian adjustment for confounding (BAC), to estimate the effect of an exposure of interest on the outcome, while accounting for the uncertainty in the choice of confounders. Our approach is based on specifying two models: (1) the outcome as a function of the exposure and the potential confounders (the outcome model); and (2) the exposure as a function of the potential confounders (the exposure model). We consider Bayesian variable selection on both models and link the two by introducing a dependence parameter, , denoting the prior odds of including a predictor in the outcome model, given that the same predictor is in the exposure model. In the absence of dependence ( ), BAC reduces to traditional Bayesian model averaging (BMA). In simulation studies, we show that BAC, with estimates the exposure effect with smaller bias than traditional BMA, and improved coverage. We, then, compare BAC, a recent approach of Crainiceanu, Dominici, and Parmigiani (2008 , Biometrika 95, 635–651), and traditional BMA in a time series data set of hospital admissions, air pollution levels, and weather variables in Nassau, NY for the period 1999–2005. Using each approach, we estimate the short‐term effects of on emergency admissions for cardiovascular diseases, accounting for confounding. This application illustrates the potentially significant pitfalls of misusing variable selection methods in the context of adjustment uncertainty. |
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Keywords: | Adjustment uncertainty Bayesian model averaging Exposure effects Treatment effects |
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