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  • Behavioral Science

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  • Micro-randomized trials (MRTs) are crucial for optimizing mobile health interventions.
  • Estimating causal excursion effects in MRTs often relies on inverse probability weighting (IPW).
  • Standard IPW can suffer from high variance in MRTs due to numerous time-varying treatments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop novel, more efficient estimators for causal effects in MRTs.
  • To address the variance inflation issue in IPW for complex MRT designs.
  • To enhance the precision of analyses for binary outcomes in mobile health research.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed two new "per-decision IPW" estimators for binary outcomes in MRTs.
  • The second estimator incorporates semiparametric efficiency theory using projection.
  • Methods are validated for consistency and asymptotic normality.

Main Results:

  • The proposed per-decision IPW estimators demonstrate substantial efficiency improvements over existing methods.
  • Simulations and real-world data applications confirm the enhanced precision.
  • The new estimators effectively reduce variance in causal effect estimation.

Conclusions:

  • The novel per-decision IPW estimators offer a significant advancement for analyzing MRTs.
  • These methods improve the precision of primary and secondary analyses in mobile health intervention studies.
  • The proposed estimators enhance the reliability of findings from micro-randomized trials with binary outcomes.