Title
The Counterfactual χ-GAN: Finding comparable cohorts in observational health data
Abstract
•Adversarial training may support causal inference from non-randomized data.•Minimization of the χ2-divergence between two populations minimizes the variance of importance sampling estimates.•The Counterfactual χ-GAN produces better feature balance, a less biased average treatment effect, and a more reasonable effective sample size than comparator methods.•When applied to real-world clinical data, The Counterfactual χ-GAN may provide an alternative means to causal estimation from observational data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.jbi.2020.103515
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Causal inference,Machine learning,Health,GANs,Deep learning,Observational studies
Journal
109
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1532-0464
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amelia J Averitt100.34
Natnicha Vanitchanant200.34
Rajesh Ranganath302.37
Adler J. Perotte412910.87