期刊
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
卷 110, 期 511, 页码 1024-1036出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.958155
关键词
Causal inference; Double robustness; Missing data; Nuisance parameters; Semiparametric estimation
资金
- Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO)
- TAP research network from the Belgian government (Belgian Science Policy) [P07/06]
Over the past decade, doubly robust estimators have been proposed for a variety of target parameters in causal inference and missing data models. These are asymptotically unbiased when at least one of two nuisance working models is correctly specified, regardless of which. While their asymptotic distribution is not affected by the choice of root-n consistent estimators of the nuisance parameters indexing these working models when all working models are correctly specified, this choice of estimators can have a dramatic impact under misspecification of at least one working model. In this article, we will therefore propose a simple and generic estimation principle for the nuisance parameters indexing each of the working models, which is designed to improve the performance of the doubly robust estimator of interest, relative to the default use of maximum likelihood estimators for the nuisance parameters. The proposed approach locally minimizes the squared first-order asymptotic bias of the doubly robust estimator under misspecification of both working models and results in doubly robust estimators with easy-to-calculate asymptotic variance. It moreover improves the stability of the weights in those doubly robust estimators which invoke inverse probability weighting. Simulation studies confirm the desirable finite-sample performance of the proposed estimators. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
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