作者：Ogburn, Elizabeth L.; VanderWeele, Tyler J.
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Harvard University; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
摘要：Consider the causal effect that one individual's treatment may have on another individual's outcome when the outcome is contagious, with specific application to the effect of vaccination on an infectious disease outcome. The effect of one individual's vaccination on another's outcome can be decomposed into two different causal effects, called the infectiousness and contagion effects. We present identifying assumptions and estimation or testing procedures for infectiousness and contagion effect...
作者：Keller, Joshua P.; Drton, Mathias; Larson, Timothy; Kaufman, Joel D.; Sandler, Dale P.; Szpiro, Adam A.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
摘要：Cohort studies in air pollution epidemiology aim to establish associations between health outcomes and air pollution exposures. Statistical analysis of such associations is complicated by the multivariate nature of the pollutant exposure data as well as the spatial misalignment that arises from the fact that exposure data are collected at regulatory monitoring network locations distinct from cohort locations. We present a novel clustering approach for addressing this challenge. Specifically, w...
