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  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Interference in studies occurs when one individual's treatment affects others' outcomes.
  • Partial interference assumes no interference between distinct clusters of individuals.
  • Inverse probability weighted (IPW) estimators are used for partial interference but rely on correct propensity score modeling.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and evaluate doubly robust (DR) estimators for observational studies with partial interference.
  • To demonstrate the consistency and asymptotic normality of DR estimators under partial or complete model misspecification.
  • To compare the efficiency of DR estimators against IPW estimators.

Main Methods:

  • Development of doubly robust (DR) estimators combining propensity score and outcome regression models.
  • Theoretical analysis of estimator consistency and asymptotic normality.
  • Empirical evaluation using simulation and real-world data.

Main Results:

  • DR estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal if either the propensity score model or the outcome regression model is correctly specified.
  • Empirical results confirm the doubly robust property.
  • DR estimators demonstrate efficiency gains over IPW estimators when both models are correctly specified.

Conclusions:

  • Doubly robust estimators provide a more reliable method for estimating treatment effects in observational studies with partial interference.
  • These estimators offer robustness against model misspecification, a common challenge in real-world data analysis.
  • The study highlights the practical utility of DR estimators, illustrated by their application to cholera vaccination data.