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  • Epidemiology
  • Causal Inference

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  • Causally interpretable meta-analysis estimates treatment effects in target populations using randomized controlled trials.
  • Systematically missing covariate data across trials presents a significant challenge in these analyses.

Approach:

  • Develops identification results for potential outcomes and average treatment effects with systematically missing covariate data.
  • Proposes three novel estimators for the average treatment effect in the target population.
  • Examines the asymptotic properties and finite-sample performance of the proposed estimators through simulation studies.

Key Points:

  • Provides methods to handle systematically missing covariate data in causal meta-analysis.
  • Offers three new estimators for average treatment effects in target populations.
  • Demonstrates good finite-sample performance in simulations.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed estimators effectively address systematically missing covariate data in causal meta-analysis.
  • The methods are applicable to real-world data, including lung cancer screening trials and NHANES data.
  • Modifications are included to handle complex survey designs, such as sampling weights and clustering.