iptw: Inverse probability of treatment weighting for marginal...

In twang: Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups

Description

iptw uses gbm to estimate propensity scores for sequential treatments.

Usage

 
iptw(formula,
   data,
   timeInvariant = NULL,
   n.trees = 10000,
   stop.method = "es.max",
   cumulative = TRUE,
   timeIndicators = NULL,
   ID = NULL,
   priorTreatment = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

formula	Either a single formula (long format) or a list with formulas
data	The dataset, includes treatment assignment as well as covariates
timeInvariant	An optional formula (with no left-hand variable) specifying time-invariant chararacteristics.
n.trees	number of gbm iterations passed on to gbm
stop.method	A method or methods of measuring and summarizing balance across pretreatment variables. Current options are ks.mean, ks.max, es.mean, and es.max. ks refers to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic and es refers to standardized effect size. These are summarized across the pretreatment variables by either the maximum (.max) or the mean (.mean).
cumulative	If TRUE, the time t model includes time-varying characteristics from times 1 through t-1.
timeIndicators	For long format fits, a vector of times for each observation.
ID	For long format fits, a vector of numeric identifiers for unique analytic units.
priorTreatment	For long format fits, includes treatment levels from previous times if TRUE. This argument is ignored for wide format fits.
...	Additional arguments that are passed to ps function.

Details

This function uses generalized boosted models to estimate inverse probability of treatment weights for sequential treatments.

Value

Returns an object of class iptw, a list containing

psList	A list of ps objects with length equal to the number of time periods.
estimand	The specified estimand.
stop.methods	The stopping rules used to optimize iptw balance.
nFits	The number of ps objects (i.e., the number of distinct time points.)
uniqueTimes	The unique times in the specified model.

See Also

ps

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